Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: books, midland, imagination, educated
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1964-01-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0253200881
ISBN-13: 9780253200884

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

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Harvest Book
Keywords: bible, literature, study, second, power, words
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1992-04-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0156983656
ISBN-13: 9780156983655

Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, with discussions of authors ranging from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Yeats and Eliot. Frye identifies four key elements found in the Bible-the mountain, the garden, the cave, and the furnace-and describes how they recur in later secular writings. Indices.

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: essays, four, criticism, anatomy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-09-25
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691069999
ISBN-13: 9780691069999

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time. Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Keywords: imagination, canadian, essays, garden, bush
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1995-09-13
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 088784572X
ISBN-13: 9780887845727

Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive new edition of Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting features an introduction by Canadian literature scholar Linda Hutcheon.

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: literature, bible, code
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-11-11
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156027801
ISBN-13: 9780156027809

An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. “No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy as Frye the literary aspect of our biblical heritage” (New York Times Book Review). Indices.

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: symmetry, fearful
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1969-04-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691012911
ISBN-13: 9780691012919

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

Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: shakespeare, frye, northrop
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1988-09-10
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300042086
ISBN-13: 9780300042085

One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare’s most popular plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. The outgrowth of a lifetime of study and teaching, Frye’s insights will inform and delight both the expert and the first-time reader of Shakespeare.