Northop Frye

by Rampton, David

• ISBN13: 9780776606958
• ISBN10: 0776606956
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-13
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early essays, correspondence, and diaries recently published as part of the Collected Works of Northrop Fryeseries, in order to explore the development of his extraordinary intellectual range and the implications of his imaginative syntheses. They refute postmodernist arguments that Frye's literary criticism is obsolete and propose his wide-ranging and non-linear ways of thinking as a model for twenty-first century readers searching for innovative ways of understanding literature and its relevance to contiguous disciplines. The volume provides an in-depth examination of Frye's work on a range of literary questions, periods, and genres, as well as a consideration of his contributions to literary theory, philosophy, and theology. The portrait that emerges is that of a writer who still has much to offer those interested in literature and the ways it represents and transforms our world. The book's overall argument is that Frye's case for the centrality of the imagination has never been more important where understanding history, reconciling science and culture, or reconceptualizing social change is concerned.

Author Biography

David Rampton teaches twentieth-century American and comparative literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Vladimir Nabokov: A Critical Study of the Novels (Cambridge, 1984), Short Fiction: An Introductory Anthology (Harcourt Brace, 2004) and William Faulkner: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2008).

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. I
Abbreviations	p. II
Volumes of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye and of Frye Studies	p. V
Introduction	p. VIII
Frye's Legacy
The Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The Project and the Edition	p. 1
"Pity the Northrop Frye Scholar"? Anatomy of Criticism Fifty Years After	p. 15
The Genius of Northrop Frye	p. 35
Frye & Canadian Literature
Jumping to Conclusions: Northrop Frye on Canadian Literature	p. 55
History, Tradition, and the Work of Pastoral: Frye's "Conclusion to a Literary History of Canada"	p. 80
Frye & The Sacred
The Reverend H. Northrop Frye	p. 107
Recovery of the Spiritual Other: Martin Buber's "Thou" in Northrop Frye's Late Work	p. 125
Frye's "Pure Speech": Literature and the Sacred without the Sacred	p. 143
New Directions from Old: Reconsiderations
Northrop Frye and the Chart of Symbolism	p. 169
The Earth's Imagined Corners: Frye and Utopia	p. 186
Transcending Realism: Northrop Frye, the Victorians, and the Anatomy of Criticism	p. 206
Re-Valuing Value	p. 226
New Approaches
The Interruption of Myth in Northrop Frye: Toward a Revision of the "Silent Beatrice"	p. 251
Frye and Film Studies: Anatomy of Irony	p. 278
Reframing Frye: Bridging Culture and Cognition	p. 297
An Access of Power: Job, Evolution, and the Spirit of Consciousness in Northrop Frye and Daniel C. Dennett	p. 319
Biographies	p. 341
Index	p. 346
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