Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938 / / Northrop Frye; ed. by Robert D. Denham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• HerausgeberIn: Denham, Robert D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)

'Frye was a person of uncommon gifts, and very little that came from his pen is without interest.' So writes Robert Denham in his introduction to this unique collection of twenty-two papers written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time.The majority of these papers were written for courses at Emmanuel College, the theology school of Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Essays such as 'The Concept of Sacrifice,' 'The Fertility Cults,' and 'The Jewish Background of the New Testament' reveal the links between Frye's early research in theology and the form and content of his later criticism. It is clear that even as a theology student Frye's first impulse was always that of the cultural critic. The papers on Calvin, Eliot, Chaucer, Wyndham Lewis, and on the forms of prose fiction show Frye as precociously witty, rigorous, and incisive - a gifted writer who clearly found his voice before his last undergraduate year.David Lodge wrote in the New Statesman: 'There are not many critics whose twenty-year-old book reviews one can read with pleasure and instruction, but Frye is an exception to most rules.' Northrop Frye's student essays provide pleasure and instruction through their comments on the Augustinian view of history, on beauty, truth, and goodness, on literary symbolism and tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Victoria College Essays -- 1. The Basis of Primitivism -- 2. Romanticism -- 3. Robert Browning: An Abstract Study -- Emmanuel College Essays -- 4. The Concept of Sacrifice -- 5. The Fertility Cults -- 6. The Jewish Background of the New Testament: An Essay in Historical Apocalyptic -- 7. The Age and Type of Christianity in the Epistle of James -- 8. Doctrine of Salvation in John, Paul, and James -- 9. St. Paul and Orphism -- 10. The Augustinian Interpretation of History -- 11. The Life and Thought of Ramon Lull -- 12. Robert Cowton to Thomas Rondel, Lector at Balliol College, Oxford -- 13. Relative Importance of the Causes of the Reformation -- 14. Gains and Losses of the Reformation -- 15. A Study of the Impact of Cultural Movements upon the Church in England during the Nineteenth Century -- 16. The Relation of Religion to the Arts -- 17. The Relation of Religion to the Art Forms of Music and Drama -- 18. The Diatribes of Wyndham Lewis: A Study in Prose Satire -- Other Essays -- 19. An Enquiry into the Art Forms of Prose Fiction -- 20. The Importance of Calvin for Philosophy -- 21. T.S. Eliot and Other Observations -- 22. A Reconsideration of Chaucer -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index