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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... seems to me to have something of what is called misplaced concreteness about it . Conceived as objectified feeling alone , art is seen only as something that interrupts or displaces reality , not as a permanent part of a world ...
... seems to have had absolutely no use for was Freud , in spite of the fact that Freud based one of his books , Totem and Taboo , on Frazer's work . Maybe this was just prudery , but why should a man handling Frazer's kind of material be ...
... seems even more gullible and simple - minded than the rest of us . For the poet , the particular literary conventions he adopts are likely to become , for him , facts of life . If he finds that the kind of writing he's best at has a ...
Contents
Preface | ix |
Levels of Meaning in Literature | xiii |
Abbreviations | xv |
Copyright | |
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