The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 / / Jean O'Grady, Alvin A. Lee, Eva Kushner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Kushner, Eva ,; Lee, Alvin A.,; O'Grady, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971). A highly important marker of Frye's career, The Critical Path openly addresses topics that he had previously been reluctant to discuss as fully, including the importance of literature to society, the responsibilities of critics, and the deeper rationales for studying literature.Filled with insightful texts that indicate his transition from literary critic to a theorist of language, myth, and human culture, this edition helps to illuminate many of the ideas and arguments that would appear later in The Great Code and Words with Power. Accompanied by the rigorous scholarship for which the series is renowned, this is another valuable contribution to literary criticism and theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism -- 2. Literary Criticism -- 3. Myth and Poetry -- 4. Preface to Bachelard's The Psychoanalysis of Fire -- 5. After the Invocation, A Lapse into Litany -- 6. Criticism, Visible and Invisible -- 7. The Structure and Spirit of Comedy -- 8. The Norms of Satire -- 9. Allegory -- 10. Verse and Prose -- 11. Varieties of Literary Utopias -- 12. Letter to the English Institute, 1965 -- 13. Reflections in a Mirror -- 14. Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts -- 15. Literature and Myth -- 16. Welcoming Remarks to Conference on Editorial Problems, 1967 -- 17. On Value Judgments -- 18. Literature and Society -- 19. Mythos and Logos -- 20. The Myth of Light -- 21. Old and New Comedy -- 22. Sign and Significance -- 23. Literature and the Law -- 24. The Search for Acceptable Words -- 25. The Times of the Signs -- 26. The Rhythms of Time -- 27. Charms and Riddles -- 28. Expanding Eyes -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index