Northrop Frye on modern culture / edited by Jan Gorak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estate of Northrop Frye, author.

Contributor:

Gorak, Jan, 1952- editor.

Series:

Frye, Northrop. 1996 ; Works. v. 11

Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eradicating once and for all the unfounded notion that Frye was not a political writer, this eleventh volume in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye gathers together all of Northrop Frye's writings on politics, culture, the arts, history, literature, mass media, and music.Written between 1934 and 1986, these collected works illustrate the extent of Frye's engagement with the unfolding events of twentieth-century political life, from the Great Depression to the Reagan / Thatcher / Mulroney era. The centrepiece of the volume, Frye's learned and wide-ranging contribution to the Canadian confederation celebrations, The Modern Century (1967), is accompanied by pieces that reflect Frye's observations on such diverse political events as the Oxford 'King and Country' debate and the Vietnam war, revealing Frye the literary theorist as Frye the political entity.Jan Gorak's extensive introduction and annotations serve to historicize Frye and situate him and his work in the historical and critical context of twentieth-century Canada and North America. Frye's work is discussed in relation to that of T.S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson, Raymond Williams, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, E.J. Pratt, A.J.M. Smith, F.A. Underhill, J.S. Woodsworth, George Grant, and especially Oswald Spengler. Erudite and enlightening, Frye's comments on politics are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them, and this volume will be a valuable reference for understanding the essential Frye.

Contents:

The Modern Century

City of the End of Things

Improved Binoculars

Clair de lune intellectuel

Current Opera: A Housecleaning

Ballet Russe

The Jooss Ballet

Frederick Delius

Three-Cornered Revival at Headington

Music and the Savage Breast

Men as Trees Walking

K.R. Srinivasa's Lytton Strachey

The Great Charlie

Reflections at a Movie

Music in the Movies

Max Graf's Modern Music

Abner Dean's It's a Long Way to Heaven

Russian Art

Herbert Read's The Innocent Eye

The Eternal Tramp

On Book Reviewing

Academy without Walls

Communications

The Renaissance of Books

Violence and Television

Introduction to Art and Reality

Pro Patria Mori

Wyndham Lewis: Anti-Spenglerian

War on the Cultural Front

Two Italian Sketches, 1939

G.M. Young's Basic

Revenge or Justice?

F.S.C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West

Wallace Notestein's The Scot in History

Toynbee and Spengler

Gandhi

Ernst Junger's On the Marble Cliffs

Dr. Kinsey and the Dream Censor

Cardinal Mindszenty

The Two Camps

Law and Disorder

Two Books on Christianity and History

Nothing to Fear but Fear

The Ideal of Democracy

The Church and Modern Culture

And There is No Peace

Caution or Dither?

Trends in Modern Culture

Regina versus the World

Oswald Spengler

Preserving Human Values

The War in Vietnam

The Two Contexts

The Quality of Life in the '70s

Spengler Revisited

The Bridge of Language.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9078-X

1-282-02307-1

9786612023071

1-4426-7783-X

OCLC:

1013937338