Northrop Frye's Canadian literary criticism and its influence / edited by Branko Gorjup.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gorjup, Branko, editor.

Series:

Frye studies.

Frye Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Criticism--Canada--History--20th century.

Frye, Northrop--Criticism and interpretation.

Frye, Northrop--Influence.

Canada.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism.

Contents:

Introduction. Incorporating legacies: decolonizing the Garrison / Branko Gorjup

Part 1. The confluence of the mythopoeic and thematic: Frye and Canada. The Canadian Poet's predicament / James Reaney

'This northern mouth': Ideas of myth and regionalism in modern Canadian poetry / John Riddell

Myth, Frye, and Canadian writers / D.G. Jones

Northrop Frye: Canadian mythographer / Rosemary Sullivan

Frye in place / Francis Sparshott

Part II. Frye's influence on the Canadian literary and critical imagination: challenging the legacy. Why James Reaney is a better poet than any Northrop Frye poet than he used to be / George Bowering

Butterfly in the bush garden: 'mythopoeic' criticism of contemporary poetry written in Canada / Barbara Belyea

Surviving the paraphrase / Frank Davey

Mandatory subversive manifesto: Canadian criticism versus literary criticism / Barry Cameron and Michael Dixon

Bushed in the sacred wood / John Moss

Part III. Frye's Canadian criticism and the making of Canadian literary and critical culture. Northrop Frye and the Canadian literary tradition / Eli Mandel

Retrieving the Canadian critical tradition as poetry: Eli Mandel and Northrop Frye / Margery Fee

Against monism: the Canadian anatomy of Northrop Frye / Eleanor Cook

Reading for contradiction in the literature of colonial space / Heather Murray

Frye recoded: postmodernity and the conclusions / Linda Hutcheon

Frye: Canadian critic/ writer / David Staines

'A quest for the peaceable kingdom': The narrative in Northrop Frye's 'conclusion' to the Literary History of Canada / Robert Lecker

The Northrop Frye effect / Russell Morton Brown.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9757-1

OCLC:

923774243