The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955

The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780802035387

This volume in the Collected Works provides a transcription of the seven books of diaries that Frye kept intermittently from 1942 until 1955.

Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989

Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780802036025

"This volume of essays, talks, reviews and papers span some fifty years of his long writing career." (Midwest)

Northrop Frye on Twentieth-century Literature

Northrop Frye on Twentieth-century Literature
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442640537

"This volume brings together Northrop Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, a body of work produced over almost sixty years. Including Frye's incisive book on T.S. Eliot, as well as his discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell, the volume also contains a recently discovered review of C.G. Jung's book on the synchronicity principle and a previously unpublished introduction to an anthology of twentieth-century literature. Frye's insightful commentaries demonstrate that he was as astute a critic of the literature of his own time as he was of the literature of earlier periods." "Glen Robert Gill's introduction delineates the development of Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, puts it in historical and cultural context, and relates it to his overarching theory of literature. This definitive volume in the Collected Works will be a welcome addition to the libraries of Frye specialists and of scholars and students of twentieth-century literature in general."--BOOK JACKET.

Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0802038247

Highlighting aspects of his scholarship seldom given sufficient emphasis, this new volume of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye documents Frye's writings on the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (apart from those on William Blake, which are featured in other volumes). The volume includes Frye's seminal 1956 essay "Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility" and the highly influential 1968 book A Study of English Romanticism. With these pieces and the other published and unpublished works contained in the volume, Frye changed the way the transition from the major Augustan figures to the Romantics was viewed. These works are a central part of Frye's long and radical rethinking of the relation of romance and Romanticism and, through them, he emerges as a meticulous textual critic, teasing out the fine brushstroke effects in writers as varied as Boswell and Beddoes, Dickens and Dickinson. Imre Salusinszky's introduction and annotation illuminates Frye's writing and guides the reader along the path of Frye's five-decade development of thought on Romanticism. This volume is an invaluable contribution to studies on Frye, as well as to Romantic and Victorian literature.

The Reception of Northrop Frye

The Reception of Northrop Frye
Author:
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487537751

The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, "Who now reads Frye?" In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has progressed at a geomantic rate. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is "a very large and growing number," the growth being not incremental but exponential.

Milton and Questions of History

Milton and Questions of History
Author: Mary Ellen Nyquist
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442643927

Milton and Questions of History considers the contribution of several classic studies of Milton written by Canadians in the twentieth century. It contemplates whether these might be termed a coherent 'school' of Milton studies in Canada and it explores how these concerns might intervene in current critical and scholarly debates on Milton and, more broadly, on historicist criticism in its relationship to renewed interest in literary form. The volume opens with a selection of seminal articles by noted scholars including Northrop Frye, Hugh McCallum, Douglas Bush, Ernest Sirluck, and A.S.P. Woodhouse. Subsequent essays engage and contextualize these works while incorporating fresh intellectual concerns. The Introduction and Afterword frame the contents so that they constitute a dialogue between past and present critical studies of Milton by Canadian scholars.