Frye and the Word : : Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye / / Alan Mendelson, Jeffery Donaldson.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Donaldson, Jeffery,; Mendelson, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Frye Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The religious context of Northrop Frye's criticism is virtually inexhaustible in its reach and implication. Frye and the Word draws together leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and hermeneutics, religious studies, and philosophy to construe and debate the late thought and writings of Northrop Frye in their spiritual dimension. The volume provides the first full account and evaluation of the legacy of Frye's works on the Bible and literature, in relation to Frye's work as a whole and to current trends in literary criticism and religious studies.Frye's trilogy, The Great Code, Words with Power, and The Double Vision, both showed him to be a radical Blakean visionary and carried him forward into an urgent engagement with the imaginative and spiritual dimension as expressed in language, myth and metaphor, tools of recognition, and revelation. Frye struggled to understand and articulate how the Bible enjoyed ? for reasons still to be fully appreciated in their literary context ? an apparently unequalled spiritual and cultural authority, and what this authority could tell us about our primary concerns as human beings and our still unrealized potential for fulfillment. This collection, then, is about Frye's own engagement with words and the Word, with secular and sacred scripture -- about a unifying principle that lies often unrecognized, if everywhere manifest, in the spiritual and imaginative dimensions of language.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction / Donaldson, Jeffery -- A SPIRAL CURRICULUM -- Sacred and Secular Scripture(s) in the Thought of Northrop Frye / Lee, Alvin A. -- 'In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum / Salusinszky, Imre -- METAPHOR AND SPIRIT -- Frye's Double Vision: Metaphor and the Two Sources of Religion / Sherbert, Garry -- The Reality of the Created: From Deconstruction to Recreation / Happy, Michael -- The Metaphysical Foundation of Frye's Monadology / Halmi, Nicholas -- Word, Flesh, Metaphor, and 'Something' of a Mystery in Words with Power / Knight, Leah -- MYTH AND TYPOLOGY -- The Flesh Made Word: Body and Spirit in the New Archetypology of Northrop Frye / Gill, Glen Robert -- Northrop Frye between Archetype and Typology / Alter, Robert -- Northrop Frye: Typology and Gnosticism / Munk, Linda -- A Note on Frye and Philo: Philosophy and the Revealed Word / Van Nie, Johannes -- THE CHURCH -- Frye and the Church / O'Grady, Jean -- Northrop Frye and Catholicism / Perkin, J. Russell -- APPLICATIONS -- Crazy Love: Frye, Breton, and the Erotic Imagination / Adamson, Joseph -- Toni Morrison: Re-Visionary Words with Power / Wilson, Jean -- Northrop Frye and the Poetry in Biblical Hermeneutics / Kee, James M. -- Oscar Wilde's De Profundis: Prison Letter as Myth / Christensen, Peter G. -- The Seduction of Figaro: Gender and the Archetype of the 'Tricky Servant' / Forst, Graham N. -- SPIRAL CURRICULA -- Frye's Fourth: 'The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Seen' / Singer, Ian -- The Ashes of Stars: Northrop Frye and the Trickster God / Dolzani, Michael -- Northrop Frye's 'Kook Books' and the Esoteric Tradition / Denham, Robert D. -- Index of Works by Northrop Frye -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects