The Educated Imagination And Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963

by Frye, Northrop; Warkentin, Germaine

• ISBN13: 9780802092090
• ISBN10: 0802092098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-07
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In 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 shape The 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Credits and Sources	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	xvii
Dr. Edgar's Book	3	(4)
Art Does Need Sociability	7	(2)
Music in Poetry	9	(14)
The Anatomy in Prose Fiction	23	(16)
The Nature of Satire	39	(19)
Nichols and Kirkup's The Cosmic Shape	58	(1)
R.F. Patterson's The Story of English Literature	59	(1)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	60	(17)
The Four Forms of Prose Fiction	77	(13)
Levels of Meaning in Literature	90	(14)
A Conspectus of Dramatic Genres	104	(16)
The Archetypes of Literature	120	(16)
Three Meanings of Symbolism	136	(10)
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes	146	(4)
Towards a Theory of Cultural History	150	(19)
Art in a New Modulation	169	(6)
Ministry of Angels	175	(9)
Critics and Criticism	184	(5)
Myth as Information	189	(8)
Content with the Form	197	(6)
Forming Fours	203	(11)
The Language of Poetry	214	(10)
The Transferability of Literary Concepts	224	(6)
An Indispensable Book	230	(5)
``Preface'' and ``Introduction: Lexis and Melos''	235	(14)
The Ulysses Theme and Tragic Themes in Western Literature	249	(5)
Nature and Homer	254	(13)
Sir James Frazer	267	(9)
Interior Monologue of M. Teste	276	(8)
World Enough without Time	284	(11)
Literature as Possession	295	(12)
New Directions from Old	307	(15)
The Well-Tempered Critic (I)	322	(15)
The Well-Tempered Critic (II)	337	(64)
Myth, Fiction, and Displacement	401	(19)
The Imaginative and the Imaginary	420	(16)
The Educated Imagination	436	(59)
Notes	495	(26)
Emendations	521	(2)
Index	523