| Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-89 Contributor(s): Frye, Northrop (Author), Denham, Robert D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0802036023 ISBN-13: 9780802036025 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $127.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2002283659 |
| Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.47" W x 9.31" (1.71 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawn from previously unpublished essays, talks, reviews and papers, this volume of Northrop Frye's collected works spans some fifty years of his long writing career. The earliest item is a paper on The Canterbury Tales dating from Frye's student days at Oxford. The latest was written in 1989, on the occasion of his receiving his thirty-sixth honorary degree from the University of Bologna. The center-piece of the collection is Frye's lengthy and ambitious essay, Rencontre. Intended as an introduction to a never-published anthology of English literature, it is unique in Frye's oeuvre, being the only example of a sustained, continuous encounter with an entire literary tradition. Rencontre is a masterwork in its own right. Other important essays include: Shakespeare and the Comedy of Humours, The Literary Meaning of 'Archetype, ' and Blake's Jerusalem. Frye was a profound and original thinker whose stature has not yet been fully realized. The writings collected here not only exemplify his extraordinary mind and elegant prose style - they show a far-sightedness and range that has not been seen before. |