Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence / / Branko Gorjup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Gorjup, Branko,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In his long and eminent scholarly career, Northrop Frye engaged with subjects ranging from classics to twentieth-century writings. Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism.Frye's belief that Canadian writing should be studied within the context of Canadian life rather than evaluated autonomously, in relation to the world's literature, was controversial. While there were those who favoured Frye's position and extended its use for wider theoretical applications, those who criticized Frye's stance felt that Canadian authors should not be exempt from universally sanctioned critical standards. Branko Gorjup and an esteemed group of contributors skilfully capture the tension that arose from this binary critical problematic and document the various attempts at resolving or transcending it, encouraging a remapped understanding of Frye and locating his place in Canadian criticism from a contemporary perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Incorporating Legacies: Decolonizing the Garrison -- Part I. The Confluence of the Mythopoeic and the Thematic: Frye and Canada -- 1.1 The Canadian Poet's Predicament / Reaney, James -- 1.2 'This Northern Mouth': Ideas of Myth and Regionalism in Modern Canadian Poetry / Riddell, John -- 1.3 Myth, Frye, and Canadian Writers / Jones, D.G. -- 1.4 Northrop Frye: Canadian Mythographer / Sullivan, Rosemary -- 1.5 Frye in Place / Sparshott, Francis -- Part II. Frye's Influence on the Canadian Literary and Critical Imagination: Challenging the Legacy -- 2.1 Why James Reaney Is a Better Poet (1) than any Northrop Frye poet (2) than he used to be / Bowering, George -- 2.2 Butterfly in the Bush Garden: 'Mythopoeic' Criticism of Contemporary Poetry Written in Canada / Belyea, Barbara -- 2.3 Surviving the Paraphrase / Davey, Frank -- 2.4 Mandatory Subversive Manifesto: Canadian Criticism versus Literary Criticism / Cameron, Barry / Dixon, Michael -- 2.5 Bushed in the Sacred Wood / Moss, John -- Part III. Frye's Canadian Criticism and the Making of Canadian Literary and Critical Culture -- 3.1 Northrop Frye and the Canadian Literary Tradition / Mandel, Eli -- 3.2 Retrieving the Canadian Critical Tradition as Poetry: Eli Mandel and Northrop Frye / Fee, Margery -- 3.3 Against Monism: The Canadian Anatomy of Northrop Frye / Cook, Eleanor -- 3.4 Reading for Contradiction in the Literature of Colonial Space / Murray, Heather -- 3.5 Frye Recoded: Postmodernity and the Conclusions / Hutcheon, Linda -- 3.6 Frye: Canadian Critic/Writer / Staines, David -- 3.7 'A Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom': The Narrative in Northrop Frye's 'Conclusion' to the Literary History of Canada / Lecker, Robert -- Epilogue -- The Northrop Frye Effect / Brown, Russell Morton -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors