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1. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 400
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(2000-09-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life." And the critical study of literature provides a basic way "to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in." Harold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world. Customer Reviews (18)
All graduate students in comparative literature should own this book...
Good for studying literature
A Marvelous Book
Erudite musings
Essential |
2. Northrop Frye on Shakespeare by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 186
Pages
(1988-09-10)
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Disappointed
An excellent guide to Shakespeare
Not Your Typical Frye
Two Words: "Green World"
An enlightening look at Shakespeare's plays. |
3. Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays 1974-1988 Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 386
Pages
(1991-10-01)
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4. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) by Northrop Frye | |
Hardcover: 625
Pages
(2004-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public. Distinguished by its range of reference, elegance of expression, comprehensiveness of coverage, coherence of argument, and sympathy to its subject, Fearful Symmetry was immediately recognized as a landmark of Blake criticism. Fifty years later, it is still recognized as having ensured the acceptance of Blake as a canonical poet by permanently dispelling the widespread notion that he was the mad creator of an incomprehensible private symbolism. For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's original annotation has been supplemented with references to currently standard editions of Blake and others, and many new notes have been provided, identifying quotations, allusions, and cultural references. An introduction by Ian Singer provides biographical and critical context for the book, an overview of its contents, and an account of its reception. Customer Reviews (6)
frye and beyond
searchlight
Essential for Blake fans
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction
Judging the book by its cover . . . "To say it is a magnificent, extraordinary book is to praise it as it should be praised, but in doing so one gives little idea of the huge scope of the book and of its fiery understanding . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book, I believe, is the first to show the full magnitude of Blake's mind, its vast creative thought." -- Edith Sitwell, 'The Spectator' "According as we agree or disagree with Mr. Frye's contention we shall decide finally on the supremacy of his book. In following the structure of Blake's total vision and relating it to the thought of his age he has triumphantly carried out a task which, given the giant shape of the material, cannot help being immense. His cadences, by sheer explanatory devotion, approach the sonorities of Blake's own." -- 'Times Literary Supplement' "Frye conducts his ambitious study with unflagging energy, great enthusiasm, and immense erudition." -- 'Poetry' "An intelligent and beautifully written critical interpretation of the poetry and symbolic thought of William Blake..." -- 'New Yorker' My opinion: Northrop Frye's literary criticism manages to shift the ground underfoot in the same rare way Blake's poetry does. Frye was the first to crack Blake's code, remove from him the labels of Mystic and Nutcase, and reveal him as a poet who systematically recreates the world. Frye taught Blake to Jesuits, Communist organizers, deans of women, and angry young poets. He was continually pleased to encounter doctors, housewives, clergymen, teachers, blue-collar workers, and shopkeepers, all with a great and deep appreciation of Blake. Frye's deep appreciation and admiration for Blake comes through on every page, six times over. I reread this book about every five years, each time coming away seeing the world upside down, inside out, and worth renovating. ... Read more |
5. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2002-11-11)
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Wonderful, creative Biblical commentary
The Architecture of Western Literature
An Interesting Swerve
The Gap Between the Scholars and the Pew
classic work |
6. Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 276
Pages
(1963-11-15)
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7. Northrop Frye: Anatomy of His Criticism by A. C. Hamilton | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(1991-06)
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8. The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976?1991 (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) by Northrop Frye | |
Hardcover: 625
Pages
(2006-07-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Northrop Frye?sThe Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye?s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye?s life. Frye?s study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they are both ultimately two aspects of the same ?human compulsion to create in the face of chaos.? The additional late writings reflect Frye?s sense at the time that he was working ?toward some kind of final statement,? which eventually saw the light of day, only months before his death, as Words with Power (1990). |
9. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback:
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(1969)
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10. The World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews With Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye | |
Hardcover: 351
Pages
(1990-12)
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11. Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) | |
Hardcover: 530
Pages
(2005-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The writings of John Milton and William Blake were central to Northrop Frye?s concept of the imaginative structure of Western literature and thought. He considered them the two most important poet-prophets in the English tradition. This volume brings together all of Frye?s writings on Milton and Blake from 1947 to 1987 ? published and unpublished essays, reviews, commentaries, and public lectures ? with the exception of Fearful Symmetry (published as Volume 14 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye). During this time, Frye?s engagement with Milton moved outward from the university into conferences, publications, and public lectures. His engagement with Blake, meanwhile, was a personal, intellectual, and spiritual quest, leading him to became the world authority on Blake in the mid-twentieth century. Angela Esterhammer, a student of Frye?s in the 1980s, has provided annotation and an introduction that demonstrates the poets? importance for Frye?s literary and cultural criticism and provides a twenty-first-century perspective on the legacy of his work. This key volume of the Collected Works will be important to scholars interested in Frye as well as those of Milton and Blake. |
12. Northrop Frye in Conversation (In Conversation series) by David Cayley | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1992-04-06)
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13. The Educated Imagination (Midland Books: No. 88) by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(1964-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Addressed to educators and general readers -- the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life -- this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. Dr. Frye's proposals for the teaching of literature include an early emphasis on poetry, the "central and original literary form," intensive study of the Bible, as literature, and the Greek and Latin classics, as these embody all the great enduring themes of western man, and study of the great literary forms: tragedy and comedy, romance and irony. Customer Reviews (5)
The need for Imagination
This book changed my life.
what is important about reading literature
From a Student's perspective...
Very accessible and insightful |
14. Words With Power: Being a Second Study of 'The Bible and Literature' (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) by Northrop Frye | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(2008-08-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Words with Power is the crowning achievement of the latter half of Northrop Frye's career. Portions of the work can be found in Frye's notebooks as far back as the mid-1960s when he had just finished Anatomy of Criticism, and he completed the book shortly before his death in 1991. Beyond summing up his ideas about the relation of the Bible to Western culture, Words with Power boldly confronts a host of questions ranging from the relationship between literature and ideology to the real meaning of words like 'spirit' and 'faith.' The first half of the 'double mirror' structure looks at the language in which the Bible is written, arguing that it is identical to that of myth and metaphor. Frye suggests, therefore, that given this characteristic, the Bible should be read imaginatively rather than historically or doctrinally. However, he is also careful to point out the ways in which the Bible is more than a conventional work of fiction. The second half is an astonishing tour de force in which Frye demonstrates how both the Bible and literature revolve around four primary concerns of human life. This edition goes beyond the original in its documentation of Frye's dazzlingly encyclopedic range of reference. Profound and searching, Words with Power is perhaps the most daring book of Frye's career and one of the most exciting. Customer Reviews (3)
The Lost Perspective
Experience not subject to debate
Good, but not as good as _The Great Code_... Like all of Frye's books, _Words with Power_ begins with a restatement and refinement of Frye's 'general theory' of language and literature, examining what we mean (and what he means) by words like "literature", "myth", "metaphor", "symbol", etc. This 'introductory' section occupies the first third of the book-- which might frustrate some readers, eager to jump into the main subject matter. However, it serves as an essential contextualization for the observations that Frye makes later on. Also, what Frye has to say here is not just repetition of points he's made before (although many points will be familiar to those who've read his other works), but he expands upon certain points, clarifies others, and introduces some new observations. Of particular interest here, I think, is is his discussion of what he calls the rhetorical or ideological mode of language, which exists in contradistiction to the demotic/descriptive mode of language and the conceptual/dialectical mode, as well as the imaginative/poetic mode. Frye has not generally spent much time in previous works discussing the social/political functions of language-- and it's interesting to see him devote a good deal of discussion to the subject. He also discusses at some length the idea of *kyrigma*, or *ephipany*, which takes place when language seems to operate at an almost mystical level(previously, he had called this the 'anagogic' level of language). Unfortunately, this is one of the weak spots of the book (I regard the chapter on "Symbol and Spirit" as the book's nadir)-- as I think Frye starts to take on the role of an instructor on how to obtain mystical experience through reading, and forget that he's supposed to be a scholarly analyzing various modes of language. (I'm reminded of Joseph Campbell's later works, where he starts to act more like a prophet of a mythic message-- i.e. "Follow your bliss", and less like a scholar of comparative mythology.) After this lengthy introduction, Frye gets into the 'meat' of his subject, which is an analysis of how four central motifs When all's said and done, this is a worthy read for those who like Frye's approach to literature-- especially those who appreciated _The Great Code_, his first work on the Bible. Nevertheless, I can't honestly say it's his best book-- or even his most insightful. I also don't think I'd recommend it as an introduction to Frye's approach to literary theory-- I'd say one should start with _An Anatomy of Criticism_ or _The Great Code_ instead (or, for much more popularizing approach, _The Educated Imagination_). ... Read more |
15. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Harvard paperbacks) by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(1978-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism, a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the realm of imaginative creation. In The Secular Scripture he turns again to the task of establishing a broad theoretical framework, bringing to bear his extraordinary command of the whole range of literature from antiquity to the present. Romance, a mode of literature trafficking in such plot elements as mistaken identity, shipwrecks, magic potions, the rescue of maidens in distress, has tended to be regarded as hardly deserving of serious consideration; critics praise other aspects of the Odyssey, The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's last plays, and Scott's Waverley novels, for example, while forgiving the authors' indulgence in childishly romantic plots. Frye, however, discerns in the innumerable romantic narratives of the Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of action taking the form of a cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance as a whole is thus seen as forming an integrated vision of the world, a "secularscripture" whose hero is man, parallelingthe sacred scripture whose hero is God. The clarity of Northrop Frye's perception, the scope and suggestiveness of hisconceptualizing, the wit and grace of hisstyle, have won him universal admiration. Customer Reviews (2)
A Clear Explanation of Archetypal Theory Frye's most important work is The Anatomy of Criticism, which is very insightful, but can also be difficult to understand, especially for someone new to Critical Theory. Secular Scripture is an in-depth application of the theories presented in Anatomy of Criticism to one particular branch of literature: romance. As such, it relies more upon concrete examples than upon abstract reason, and is much easier to understand. If you are looking for a good introduction to archetypal theory in literature, this is probably the book for you.
Not Frye's best book |
16. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy (Alexander Lectures) by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 121
Pages
(1996-02-06)
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17. Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life (Canadian Biography) by Joseph Adamson | |
Paperback: 93
Pages
(1993-09)
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18. Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback: 296
Pages
(2006-06-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description This collection of a dozen major essays is vintage Frye - the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context.The essays in Spiritus Mundi are arranged in three groups of four essays each. The first are about the "contexts of literature", the second are about the "mythological universe", and the last are studies of four of the great visionary or myth-making poets who have been enduring sources of interest for Frye: Milton, Blake, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. |
19. Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views) | |
Paperback: 183
Pages
(1966-06)
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William Blake , for heaven's sake, |
20. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance by Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye by Northrop Frye | |
Paperback:
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(1965-01-01)
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