Northrop Frye S Notebooks On Romance

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802039472

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Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Romance by Northrop Frye Pdf

Romance was a theme that ran through much of Northrop Frye's corpus, and his notebooks and typed notes on the subject are plentiful. This unpublished material, written between 1944 and 1989, traces a remarkable re-evaluation in his thinking over the course of time. As a young scholar, Frye insisted that romance was an expression of cultural decadence; however, in his later years, he thought of it as "the structural core of all fiction." The unpublished material Michael Dolzani has gathered for Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Romance shows how the pattern and conventions of romance inform the writing of history, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. While Frye is best known for his writing on myth and biblical scholarship, he himself eventually conceived of romance as the true and equal contrary to myth and scripture, a "secular scripture" whose message is de te fabula, "this story is about you." Given the current popular revival of romance in fiction and film, the appearance of Frye's unpublished work on romance is of profound importance.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802091796

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Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Renaissance Literature by Northrop Frye Pdf

Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masque; and those on lyric poetry and non-fiction prose.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : LCCN:00694522

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Collected Works of Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye Pdf

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0674796764

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The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye Pdf

Reassesses the tradition and individual works of Western romance, from ancient Greece to the present, as constituting an imaginative universe in which man, moving between the idyllic and demonic, functions as a scriptural hero.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0141187093

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Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye Pdf

Author : Michael Dolzani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442658110

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Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Renaissance Literature by Michael Dolzani Pdf

Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of the Romantic period, but of the Renaissance. As such, Frye's meditations on the Renaissance are particularly valuable. This volume collects six of Frye's notebooks and five sets of his typed notes on subjects related to Renaissance literature. Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masque; and those on lyric poetry and non-fiction prose. The organization of this volume reflects 'a comprehensive study of Renaissance Symbolism' in three volumes, which Frye proposed to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1949. Frye received a Guggenheim fellowship, but never wrote the book; nevertheless, his application, part of which is also included here, is an important document. The Guggenheim application not only reveals the outlines of Frye's thinking about literature, it also uncovers his plans for his future creative life during the crucial period between his completion of Fearful Symmetry and his absorption in the writing of Anatomy of Criticism. In addition to providing insight into Frye's thinking process, the material collected into this key volume in the Collected Works is of particular importance because much of it has no direct counterpart in any of Frye's other published works.

Author : Anahid Nersessian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674425125

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Utopia, Limited by Anahid Nersessian Pdf

What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation—not a perfect world but one where we get less than we hoped but more than we had.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781459719477

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The Northrop Frye Quote Book by Northrop Frye Pdf

Here is a specialized dictionary of quotations based on the thoughts and writings of a single person. It is evidence that there is a Canadian writer of whom it may be said that we as his readers can grow up inside his work "without ever being aware of a circumference."

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802039194

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Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake by Northrop Frye Pdf

Angela Esterhammer, a student of Frye's in the 1980s, has provided annotation and an introduction that demonstrates the poets' importance for Frye's literary and cultural criticism and provides a twenty-first-century perspective on the legacy of his work.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781459719484

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The Northrop Frye Quote Book by Northrop Frye Pdf

A collection of quotations from Canada’s greatest literary theorist. "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say ... that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of a circumference." Northrop Frye came to that conclusion after a detailed study of the imaginative achievements of Canada’s writers from the earliest period to 1965, when that sentence from his study first appeared in print. Over the decades since then, the statement has come to be regarded as a benchmark of individual and national literary achievement. The Northrop Frye Quote Book is a specialized dictionary of quotations on all subjects that is based on the thoughts and writings of one person. It is the handiwork of a single contributor, albeit the cogitations of a remarkable one. It is also evidence that there is a Canadian writer of whom it may be said that we can grow up inside his work "without ever being aware of a circumference." John Robert Colombo has written, translated, edited, or compiled over two hundred books, including seven dictionaries of quotations. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Frye Centre at Victoria University. Jean O’Grady, a graduate of the University of Toronto, served as the associate editor of The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. She is also the author of the biography of Margaret Addison, the first dean of women at Victoria College.

Author : B.W. Powe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442616165

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Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye by B.W. Powe Pdf

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada's central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy. Powe considers the existence of a unique visionary tradition of Canadian humanism and argues that McLuhan and Frye represent fraught but complementary approaches to the study of literature and to the broader engagement with culture. Examining their eloquent but often acid responses to each other, Powe exposes the scholarly controversies and personal conflicts that erupted between them, and notably the great commonalities in their writing and biographies. Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhan's “The medium is the message” and Frye's “the great code.”

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691759

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Words With Power by Northrop Frye Pdf

Words with Power is the crowning achievement of the latter half of Northrop Frye's career. Portions of the work can be found in Frye's notebooks as far back as the mid-1960s when he had just finished Anatomy of Criticism, and he completed the book shortly before his death in 1991. Beyond summing up his ideas about the relation of the Bible to Western culture, Words with Power boldly confronts a host of questions ranging from the relationship between literature and ideology to the real meaning of words like 'spirit' and 'faith.' The first half of the 'double mirror' structure looks at the language in which the Bible is written, arguing that it is identical to that of myth and metaphor. Frye suggests, therefore, that given this characteristic, the Bible should be read imaginatively rather than historically or doctrinally. However, he is also careful to point out the ways in which the Bible is more than a conventional work of fiction. The second half is an astonishing tour de force in which Frye demonstrates how both the Bible and literature revolve around four primary concerns of human life. This edition goes beyond the original in its documentation of Frye's dazzlingly encyclopedic range of reference. Profound and searching, Words with Power is perhaps the most daring book of Frye's career and one of the most exciting.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442649729

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Northrop Frye's Uncollected Prose by Northrop Frye Pdf

"The present volume includes talks Frye gave that were tape-recorded but for which there is no extant manuscript, taped interviews and responses to questions not included in the volume of interviews of the Collected Works; a previously undiscovered notebook and portions of others, including an extensive series of notes on romance (93,000 words); a brief in opposition to the Macpherson Report on undergraduate education at the University of Toronto; an address about the contribution of Victoria College to Canadian culture; reviews that were until recently unknown to me and the other editors of the Collected Works; a reply to a questionnaire from the American Scholar, and an early essay on poetic diction."--Page xiii

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442658332

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Northrop Frye's Notebooks for Anatomy of Critcism by Northrop Frye Pdf

Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one of the twentieth century's most distinguished critics. In this, the twenty-third volume of the Collected Works, editor Robert D. Denham presents the notebooks to the Anatomy, blue-prints, as it were, for Frye's comprehensive account of literary conventions. Composed from the late 1940s to 1956, the notebooks document the struggle Frye underwent to provide a structure for his work. This involved incorporating previously published essays and developing new material that would maintain the continuity of his argument. This fully annotated volume contains seventeen holograph notebooks, each illuminating some aspect of the grand structure that eventually emerged. Altogether, the notebooks offer an intimate picture of Frye's working process and a renewed appreciation for his magisterial accomplishment.

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307776631

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In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Pdf

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.