The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963 / / Northrop Frye; Germaine Warkentin.

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• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Warkentin, Germaine,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Dr. Edgar's Book -- 2. Art Does Need Sociability -- 3. Music in Poetry -- 4. The Anatomy in Prose Fiction -- 5. The Nature of Satire -- 6. Nichols and Kirkup's The Cosmic Shape -- 7. R.F. Patterson's The Story of English Literature -- 8. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -- 9. The Four Forms of Prose Fiction -- 10. Levels of Meaning in Literature -- 11. A Conspectus of Dramatic Genres -- 12. The Archetypes of Literature -- 13. Three Meanings of Symbolism -- 14. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes -- 15. Towards a Theory of Cultural History -- 16. Art in a New Modulation -- 17. Ministry of Angels -- 18. Critics and Criticism -- 19. Myth as Information -- 20. Content with the Form -- 21. Forming Fours -- 22. The Language of Poetry -- 23. The Transferability of Literary Concepts -- 24. An Indispensable Book -- 25. "Preface" and "Introduction: Lexis and Melos" -- 26. The Ulysses Theme and Tragic Themes in Western Literature -- 27. Nature and Homer -- 28. Sir James Frazer -- 29. Interior Monologue of M. Teste -- 30. World Enough without Time -- 31. Literature as Possession -- 32. New Directions from Old -- 33. The Well-Tempered Critic (I) -- 34. The Well-Tempered Critic (II) -- 35. Myth, Fiction, and Displacement -- 36. The Imaginative and the Imaginary -- 37. The Educated Imagination -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index