CW 29 =
Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature.
By the time
Northrop Frye set out to write what would become the definitive monograph on Blake, and the book that would make his name as a critic, Fearful Symmetry (1947), dozens of books had been published on Blake, as Frye himself makes clear in the posthumous
Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake.
This reference reader on the life and writings of
Northrop Frye provides researchers with a comprehensive listing of events, publications, and secondary source materials relating to the father of modern literary criticism.
Considering Rowling's non-innovative use of traditional models, they conclude (unconsciously paraphrasing
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism) that "Even breaking with tradition reckons with the tradition....
Bob Rodgers is currently editorial director of
Northrop Frye on the Bible and Literature, a 24-part new media series based on recently recovered archives of Frye's celebrated video lectures on the Bible and literature.
In the introduction, after questioning Thomas Moser's achievement and decline reading of Conrad's writing career, Baxter contextualizes her study in relation to ideas of romance articulated by
Northrop Frye, Gillian Beer, and Margaret Bruzelius and then explains the distinctions between philosophical romance and anti-philosophical romance articulated by Robert Miles.
Northrop Frye spoke of "the powers of repression in the student's mind that keep him from knowing what he knows" (1982: xv).
Highpoints include not only the boisterous invocation to the Muse of Satire, but also lyrics that strike a delicate balance between irony and genuine plaintiveness: "I am like a hollow tree / Where the owl & weasel hide / I am like a hollow tree / Dead in the forest of his brothers." The resulting book should appeal to a range of readers, including those interested in pastoral, in the work of Reaney's mentor
Northrop Frye, and in Canadian history and literature in general.
C'est ainsi qu'il travaiUera a partir des textes de Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, Pierre Nepveu,
Northrop Frye, Anthony Appiah et Charles Taylor, notamment, pour etudier comment s'exprime la << double conscience >> dans les etudes de litteratures << africaines-americaines, autochtones d'Amerique du Nord et quebecoises/canadiennes >> (28).
It is the importance of this theme that leads Reynier to characterise Winterson's work as a revitalisation of the genre of Romance, as defined by
Northrop Frye (69).
In 1976,
Northrop Frye wrote, "[I've] long been impressed in Canadian poetry by a tone of deep terror in regard to nature." This terror is no longer that of the settler contemplating the deep, dark woods.
Northrop Frye sketches in the opposition: "One very common convention of the nineteenth-century novel is the use of two heroines, one dark and one light.