Northrop Frye

by International Symposium on Northrup Frye Studies; Ning, Wang; O'Grady, Jean; Wang, Ning

• ISBN13: 9780802037206
• ISBN10: 0802037208
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Drawn from papers given at an international symposium on Northrop Frye in Hoh-Hot, Inner Mongolia, this volume offers insights intoFrye's theoretical approaches and the new context provided by cross-cultural questions.

Author Biography

Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Wang Ning is a Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University. He is the author of Comparative Studies of 20th Century Western Literature (2000).

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Alvin A. Lee
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	xvii
Wang Ning
Frye as Theorist
Frye and the East: Buddhist and Hindu Translations	3	(16)
Robert D. Denham
Kant and Frye on the Critical Path	19	(10)
Graham Nicol Forst
Northrop Frye on Liberal Education	29	(13)
Jean O'Grady
Beyond Anagogy: Northrop Frye's Existential (Re)visions	42	(12)
Glen Robert Gill
On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Problem of Wish-Fulfilment in Frye's Visionary Criticism	54	(15)
Michael Dolzani
From Escape to Irony: Frye's ``The Argument of Comedy''	69	(13)
Jan Gorak
Northrop Frye and Cultural Studies	82	(13)
Wang Ning
Frye and Canada
``Canadian Angles of Vision'': Northrop Frye, Carl Klinck, and the Literary History of Canada	95	(15)
Sandra Djwa
Gone Primitive: The Critic in Canada	110	(11)
Thomas Willard
Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye: New Feminism or Old Comedy?	121	(18)
James Steele
Frye and China
Myth-Archetypal Criticism in China	139	(11)
Ye Shuxian
Reconsidering Frye's Critical Thinking: A Chinese Perspective	150	(12)
Wu Chizhe
The Universal Significance of Frye's Theory of Fictional Modes	162	(15)
Gu Mingdong
Frye Studies in China: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Works	177	(3)
Epilogue	180
Jean O'Grady