Northrop Frye and critical method

Literature & Fiction

Denham, Robert D.

Dramas & Plays

Pennsylvania State University Press

Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans ce deuxième de trois volumes, son analyse poussée des grands penseurs, documents et traditions intellectuelles qui ont marqué la vision du théoricien et critique littéraire de renom, Northrop Frye : les sutras mahayana, Machiavel, Rabelais, Boehme, Hegel, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Jane Ellen Harrison et Elizabeth Fraser.Cet ouvrage, fondé sur des recherches archivistiques et historiques approfondies, documente au fil des mentions repérées dans les textes de Frye, les rares références à ces sources, et offre une analyse de la façon dont celles-ci ont façonné la pensée de Frye. Dans chaque chapitre consacré à une influence spécifique, Denham décrit la façon dont Frye a pris connaissance de ces sources, comment il les a interprétées, puis la façon dont il a adapté certaines idées et les a appliquées à ses propres systèmes conceptuels.Denham propose une fine analyse des contextes historique et intellectuel dans lesquels se situait Frye, jetant un nouvel éclairage sur l’oeuvre d’un des plus grands théoriciens de la littérature et de la culture du XXe siècle. Comprend une vingtaine de photos, des tableaux et des figures, de même qu’un chapitre portant sur la relation entre Frye et Elizabeth Fraser.

Northrop Frye and Others: Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions (Canadian Literature Collection)

History & Criticism

University of Ottawa Press

Robert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncover the links between Northrop Frye and writers and others who directly influenced his thinking but about whom he did not write an extensive commentary. The first chapter is about Frye’s reading of Patanjali, the founder of the philosophy of Hindu yoga, while the second, discusses cultural mythographer Giambattista Vico, literary history and poetic language. The focus of Frye’s criticism was the verbal arts, but he also had an abiding interest in both the visual arts and music; hence Frye’s admiration of J.S. Bach. The essay on Tolkien examines the tendency in literary history to return from irony to myth, as well as the role that Tolkien played in Frye’s fiction-writing fantasies. In subsequent chapters, Denham explores Frye’s preference for romance and his critique of realism, which run parallel to the views of Oscar Wilde, and their strong shared convictions about the centripetal thrust of art, and about criticism being as creative as literature. Frye’s appreciation for Whitehead’s concept of interpenetration in Science in the Modern World became a key feature of Frye’s speculations about the highest reaches of literature and religion. Frye is clearly indebted to Martin Buber, particularly his influential meditation I and Thou. Aristotle, an important influence upon Frye, was partially filtered through R.S. Crane and his The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry. Finally, the relationship between Frye and his Oxford tutor Edmund Blunden are explored, while the last is an essay on Frye and M.H. Abrams on how Frye’s critical project might be viewed developed in Abrams’s The Mirror and the Lamp.

Because Charles Wright occupies a large space in contemporary American poetry, it is only natural that his readers over the years have wanted to engage him in conversation and discover more about his career and inspirations. In this collection of richly detailed interviews conducted between 1979 and 2006, Wright eloquently discusses a range of topics, including the beginning of his poetic career in Italy, his experiences at the University of Iowa, the American and European influences on his work, contemporary poets he admires, his place in Southern literature, the art of translating poetry, and such formal matters as his lineation and rhythmic phrasing, his use of syllabics, and the development of his characteristic style. An extensive bibliography of writings by and about Wright supplements the interviews.

Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006

Reference

McFarland Company

This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. It pays special attention to the way that Wright's poems work together and the links that are formed between them. While each poem is given its own commentary, the author argues that they work together in a concentrated whole to document a man's spiritual journey.

The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990

McFarland

Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued. An additional list provides the locations of such poems in museum collections, other anthologies, and books of poems by a single author. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography

Arts & Photography

Canadian literary theorist Northrop Frye reshaped literary studies with his 1957 book, Anatomy of Criticism. During his long career, Frye earned widespread recognition and honors for his contributions to cultural and social critique. This biographical and bibliographic guide to Frye and his work includes a chronology, a catalog of primary and secondary materials, a list of conferences devoted to him, annotations in books in his personal library, his honorary degrees, dissertations under his direction, the application of his criticism in other disciplines, and his role in the Bodley Club as an Oxford student. Lists of books and journals dedicated to his work and of the volumes in his Collected Works complete this exhaustive compilation on one of the most influential literary critics of the 20th century.

The Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide

Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

Univ of Toronto Pr

Even the casual reader will notice a strong preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. In his latest book, however, the esteemed Frye scholar Robert Denham shows that it played a far greater role than has been assumed―religion was in fact central to practically everything Frye wrote. Denham’s focus shifts the emphasis from Anatomy of Criticism, Frye’s most famous work, and places it on those works with which Frye began and ended his career―the early Fearful Symmetry and, fifty years later, his two studies of the Bible and The Double Vision. This reevaluation is based on a close examination of Frye’s religiously charged language and aided by Denham’s remarkable and unique access to Frye’s notebooks. The notebooks’ contents not only expand on ideas laid out in Frye’s published works but also touch on subjects most readers would not associate with Frye, such as his wide reading in both Eastern religious texts and in esoteric traditions ranging from astrology to the Cabala.
Denham does not attempt to distill a theology from Frye’s work; rather, he seeks to trace the movement of Frye’s thought, demonstrating the imaginative use to which he put his wide-ranging reading. The result is a pivotal work, redefining our understanding of one of the most important humanists of the twentieth century.

Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World

University of Virginia Press

Northrop Frye Unbuttoned, Wit and Wisdom from the Notebooks and Diaries

Northrop Frye Unbuttoned, Wit and Wisdom From the Notebooks and Diaries

FRYE,Northrop

House of Anansi Press

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Northrop Frye and critical method

Northrop Frye and Others: Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions (Canadian Literature Collection)

Northrop Frye and Others: Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions (Canadian Literature Collection)

Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006

The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990

Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography

The Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide

Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World

Northrop Frye Unbuttoned, Wit and Wisdom From the Notebooks and Diaries