The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established. |
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... looks at her data she is willing enough to admit that prose fiction belongs to literature , that it may use " just the ... look at , not to live in , and in this respect it is radically unlike the neurotic's ' private world . " " But the ...
... look for in this poem ? " and answers , " For examples illustrating the fact that all ( good ) poems contain the things that we have agreed to be essential to them , or particularly fascinating about them , on the basis of our ...
... looks like a single world - wide effort , but it's really a deadlock of rivalries ; it looks very impressive , except ... look over the edge of our leaning tower , is that we are not getting any nearer heaven , and that it is time to ...
Contents
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time | xiv |
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes | 146 |
Art in a New Modulation | 169 |
Copyright | |
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