Northrop Frye's late notebooks, 1982-1990. Volume 6 : architecture of the spiritual world / edited by Robert D. Denham. / edited by Robert D. Denham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frye, Northrop, author.

Contributor:

Denham, Robert D., editor.

Series:

Frye, Northrop. 1996 ; Works. v. 6.

Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; Volume 6

Collected works of Northrop Frye ; Volume 6.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frye, Northrop--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Frye, Northrop.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Religion.

Genre:

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Architecture of the spiritual world

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An inveterate notebook keeper, Northrop Frye continually jotted down his ideas and thoughts as he worked through the complex schemes of his criticism. Volumes 5 and 6 of the Collected Works are the notebooks that he kept while writing his two final books, "Words with Power" and "The Double Vision". They provide a record of what he was reading and thinking as he struggled with the implications of those projects. In a sense they are the workshops out of which the books were constructed.While focusing on the works-in-progress, the 3684 entries presented here range over diverse territory, never failing to surprise, delight, and provoke. In these notebooks, for instance, we find comments triggered by a detective story Frye is reading, a lecture he has to prepare, a glance at the books on his shelves, a "ation he remembers, a letter received, or the memory of a trip. In many respects, the notebooks reveal a Frye who is quite different from the critic who made his reputation with "Fearful Symmetry" and "Anatomy of Criticism", displaying aspects of his personality and thought that are not apparent in his books and essays. The notebooks show us the unbuttoned Frye, a complex man capable of both spiritual transcendence and hard-headed pragmatism. Here, for instance, his criticism of Catholicism is far more acerbic than in anything he published. Likewise, his rejection of both Marxist and feminist ideology is far more pointed than elsewhere.These two volumes include seven of Frye's handwritten notebooks and five collections of his typed notebooks - all previously unpublished. The material is the record of an extraordinary intellectual odyssey, an odyssey that is, at its base, deeply spiritual.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Late Notebooks, 1982-1990

Notes 52

Notes 53

Notes 54.1

Notes 54.2

Notebook 46

Notebook 47

Notebook 48

Notebook 11h

Notes 55.1

Coda

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-7787-2

OCLC:

979743253