The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991 / / Northrop Frye; Jean Wilson, Joseph Adamson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Adamson, Joseph,; Wilson, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance -- 2 Romance as Masque -- 3 Letter to the Editor of Parabola -- 4 The Responsibilities of the Critic -- 5 Comment on Peter Hughes's Essay -- 6 Literature, History, and Language -- 7 On Translation -- 8 Extracts from The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays -- 9 Vision and Cosmos -- 10 Literature as a Critique of Pure Reason -- 11 Approaching the Lyric -- 12 The Survival of Eros in Poetry -- 13 The Ouroboros -- 14 Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate World -- 15 The End of History -- 16 Myth as the Matrix of Literature -- 17 The Koiné of Myth: Myth as a Universally Intelligible Language -- 18 The Symbol as a Medium of Exchange -- 19 The Expanding World of Metaphor -- 20 Extracts from The Harper Handbook to Literature -- 21 Letter to the Editor of PMLA -- 22 Lacan and the Full Word -- 23 Literature and the Visual Arts -- 24 The Journey as Metaphor -- 25 Framework and Assumption -- 26 Maps and Territories -- 27 Epilogo -- 28 Auguries of Experience -- 29 Literary and Mechanical Models -- 30 Literature as Therapy -- 31 Response to Papers on "Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature" -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index