Northrop Frye on Religion / / Northrop Frye; Alvin A. Lee, Jean O'Grady.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lee, Alvin A.,; O'Grady, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The late Northrop Frye is Canada's best-known literary and cultural critic, and one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, Frye developed a profoundly religious epistemology that informed and infused much of what he wrote. In bringing together his writings on the Bible and religion, this volume offers many keys to the dynamic essence of Frye's thought.Well-organized, insightfully introduced, and carefully edited, this scholarly, annotated edition covers nearly the full range of Frye's intensive intellectual work on religion. (The Great Code and Words with Power will be published in separate volumes of the collected edition.) The writings presented here span a period of fifty-seven years and range from prayers to convocation addresses. Although remarkably diverse in form and content, they reveal the splendid coherence of Frye's vision.This is a quintessential volume in the Collected Works, indispensable to all who have been inspired by Frye's work. In it we find the brilliant and often unorthodox record of a great mind imaginatively open to the transforming power of the Bible, and open also to what William Blake called "the human form divine."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- On the Bible and Human Culture -- 1. Pistis and Mythos -- 2. History and Myth in the Bible -- 3. The Meaning of Recreation: Humanism in Society -- 4. Creation and Recreation -- 5. The Double Mirror -- 6. Repetitions of Jacob's Dream -- 7. The Bride from the Strange Land -- 8. The Mythical Approach to Creation -- 9. Crime and Sin in the Bible 10 The Bible and English Literature -- 10. The Bible and English Literature -- 11. On the Bible -- 12. The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion -- On Special Occasions -- 13. The Freshman and His Religion -- 14. Merry Christinas (I) -- 15. So Many Lost Weekends -- 16. Merry Christmas? -- 17. Merry Christmas (II) -- 18. Merry Christmas (III) -- 19. The Church: Its Relation to Society -- 20. Man and the Sabbath -- 21. The Analogy of Democracy -- 22. At a Memorial Service for Deceased Students -- 23. Baccalaureate Sermon -- 24. Symbols -- 25. Funeral Service for Virginia Knight -- 26. Sermon in Merton College Chapel -- 27. Stanley Llewellyn Osborne -- 28. The Leap in the Dark -- 29. Wisdom and Knowledge -- 30. On Christmas -- 31. Wedding of Patricia Russell and Andrew Binnie -- 32. Substance and Evidence -- 33. Memorial Service for Mrs. Jean Haddow -- 34. A Breath of Fresh Air -- 35. Baccalaureate Service (I) -- 36. Funeral Service for Jean Gunn -- 37. Baccalaureate Service (II) -- 38. The Dialectic of Belief and Vision -- 39. To Come to Light -- 40. On Lent -- 41. Baccalaureate Service (III) -- 42. Baccalaureate Service (IV) -- 43. Undated Prayers -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index