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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 21
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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