Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-89 / / Northrop Frye; Robert D. Denham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Denham, Robert D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Drawn from previously unpublished essays, talks, reviews and papers, this volume of Northrop Frye's collected works spans some fifty years of his long writing career. The earliest item is a paper on The Canterbury Tales dating from Frye's student days at Oxford. The latest was written in 1989, on the occasion of his receiving his thirty-sixth honorary degree from the University of Bologna.The center-piece of the collection is Frye's lengthy and ambitious essay, "Rencontre." Intended as an introduction to a never-published anthology of English literature, it is unique in Frye's oeuvre, being the only example of a sustained, continuous encounter with an entire literary tradition. "Rencontre" is a masterwork in its own right. Other important essays include: "Shakespeare and the Comedy of Humours," "The Literary Meaning of 'Archetype,'" and "Blake's Jerusalem." Frye was a profound and original thinker whose stature has not yet been fully realized. The writings collected here not only exemplify his extraordinary mind and elegant prose style - they show a far-sightedness and range that has not been seen before.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- 1. Rencontre: The General Editor's Introduction -- 2. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- 3. George Orwell -- 4. Shakespeare's Comedy of Humors -- 5. The Writer as Prophet: Milton, Swift, Blake, Shaw -- 6. The Literary Meaning of "Archetype" -- 7. Literature and Language -- 8. Blake's Jerusalem -- II -- 9. The Present Condition of the World -- 10. Leisure and Boredom -- 11. Criticism and Society -- 12. Articulate English -- 13. Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism -- 14. The Social Uses of Literature -- 15. Canadian Identity and Cultural Regionalism -- 16. Icons and Iconoclasm -- 17. Reviews of Television Programs for the Canadian Radio-Television Commission -- 18. Introduction to the Second Volume of Harold Innis's "A History of Communications" -- III -- 19. William Butler Yeats -- 20. Laurence Hyde, Southern Cross, and The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes -- 21. Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, and Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas -- 22. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History and Herbert Butterfield, History and Human Relations -- 23. Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture -- IV -- 24. Convocation Address: Acadia University -- 25. Convocation Address: McGill University -- 26. Convocation Address: University of Bologna -- Appendix: The Social Context of Literary Criticism -- Notes -- Index