Northrop Frye's Notebooks for Anatomy of Critcism / / Northrop Frye; Robert D. Denham.

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• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Denham, Robert D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Shortened Forms -- Introduction -- Published and Forthcoming Notebooks -- Notebook 7 -- Notebook 37 -- Notebook 38 -- [Notes for Anatomy of Criticism] -- Notebook 35 -- Notebook 36 -- Notebook 18 -- Notebook 30d -- Notebook 30e -- Notebook 30f -- Notebook 30g -- Notebook 30h -- Notebook 30i -- Notebook 30j -- Notebook 30k -- Notebook 30l -- Notebook 30o-a -- Notebook 30q -- Notes -- Index