Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-89 /

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

Drawn from previously unpublished essays, talks, reviews and papers, this volume of Northrop Frye's collected works spans some fifty years of his long writing career.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 1...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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