Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991

AvNorthrop Frye,Joseph Adamson

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Northrop Frye’s The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye’s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye’s life.Frye’s study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they are both ultimately two aspects of the same “human compulsion to create in the face of chaos.” The additional late writings reflect Frye’s sense at the time that he was working “toward some kind of final statement,” which eventually saw the light of day, only months before his death, as Words with Power (1990).

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:625
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442627550
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Collected Works of Northrop Frye

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Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism. Joseph Adamson is a professor in the Department of English and the Comparative Literature Program at McMaster University. Jean Wilson is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and the Comparative Literature Program at McMaster University.

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PrefaceCredits and SourcesAbbreviationsIntroduction The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance The Word and World of ManThe Context of RomanceOur Lady of Pain: Heroes and Heroines of Romance The Bottomless Dream: Themes of DescentQuis Hic Locus? Themes of AscentThe Recovery of Myth Romance as MasqueLetter to the Editor of ParabolaThe Responsibilities of the CriticComment on Peter Hughes’s EssayLiterature, History, and LanguageOn TranslationExtracts from The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, PlaysVision and CosmosLiterature as a Critique of Pure ReasonApproaching the LyricThe Survival of Eros in PoetryThe OuroborosLiterary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate WorldThe End of HistoryMyth as the Matrix of LiteratureThe KoinÉ of Myth: Myth as a Universally Intelligible LanguageThe Symbol as a Medium of ExchangeThe Expanding World of MetaphorExtracts from The Harper Handbook to LiteratureLetter to the Editor of PMLALacan and the Full WordLiterature and the Visual ArtsThe Journey as MetaphorFramework and AssumptionMaps and TerritoriesEpilogoAuguries of ExperienceLiterary and Mechanical ModelsLiterature as TherapyResponse to Papers on “Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature”NotesEmendationsIndex