Northrop Frye's uncollected prose / edited by Robert D. Denham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frye, Northrop, author.

Contributor:

Denham, Robert D., editor.

Series:

Frye studies.

Frye studies

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Frye, Northrop.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The present volume includes talks Frye gave that were tape-recorded but for which there is no extant manuscript, taped interviews and responses to questions not included in the volume of interviews of the Collected Works; a previously undiscovered notebook and portions of others, including an extensive series of notes on romance (93,000 words); a brief in opposition to the Macpherson Report on undergraduate education at the University of Toronto; an address about the contribution of Victoria College to Canadian culture; reviews that were until recently unknown to me and the other editors of the Collected Works; a reply to a questionnaire from the American Scholar, and an early essay on poetic diction"--Introduction.

Contents:

Introduction

1. 1932 Notebook (mid-1930s)

2. Intoxicated with Words: The Colours of Rhetoric (1940s)

3. Review of Books by Rosamond Tuve and Douglas Bush (1953)

4. Neoclassical Agony: On Wyndham Lewis (1957)

5. Review of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago (1958)

6. On T.S. Eliot and Other Observations: From Notebook 13 (1960s)

7. On Finnegans Wake (1961)

8. Notes on the Massey Lectures, Yeats, and Other Topics: From Notebook 9 (1962)

9. Introduction to Fables of Identity (1963)

10. Response to the Macpherson Report (1967)

11. Communication and the Arts: A Humanist Looks at Science and Technology (1969)

12. Preface to The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (1969)

13. Notes on Romance (1974)

14. Romance as Secular Scripture: Interview and Discussion at the Thomas More Institute, Montreal (1976)

15. Preface to Spiritus Mundi (1976)

16. Victoria College's Contribution to the Development of Canadian Culture (1977)

17. Seeing, Hearing, Praying, Loving (1985)

18. The Soviet Union and Russia (1989)

19. Notes for The Double Vision: Notebook 51 (1990)

20. Notes on Miscellaneous Subjects

21. The Victoria Chapel Windows.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

"The present volume includes talks Frye gave that were tape-recorded but for which there is no extant manuscript, taped interviews and responses to questions not included in the volume of interviews of the Collected Works; a previously undiscovered notebook and portions of others, including an extensive series of notes on romance (93,000 words); a brief in opposition to the Macpherson Report on undergraduate education at the University of Toronto; an address about the contribution of Victoria College to Canadian culture; reviews that were until recently unknown to me and the other editors of the Collected Works; a reply to a questionnaire from the American Scholar, and an early essay on poetic diction."--Introduction.

ISBN:

1-4426-2130-3

1-4426-2129-X

OCLC:

908686026