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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... things , " he says , mean- ing the things other critics do ; " but we can also do more , and as a consequence be able to do these things with greater precision and intelli- gibility . For we possess what these other methods have ...
... things that , as we say , happen only in stories ; and they are mythical things , things whose credibility we don't have to discuss . And so in literary criticism the term “ myth " tends to mean much the same thing as Aristotle's mythos ...
... things we can say and certain things we can't say . Society attaches an immense importance to saying the right thing at the right time . In this conception of the " right thing , " there are two factors involved , one moral and one ...
Contents
Preface | ix |
Levels of Meaning in Literature | xiii |
Abbreviations | xv |
Copyright | |
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