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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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