Northrop Frye on Canada

Informationen zum Autor Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism. Klappentext Northrop Frye is conceivably Canada's most celebrated literary theorist, but his role in the country's cultural evolution has perhaps been overlooked by later Canadian scholars in favour of his better-known literary criticism. This collection brings together all of the writings of Northrop Frye, both published and heretofore unpublished, on the subject of Canadian literature and culture. From his early book reviews of the 1930s and 1940s through his explorations of the patterns of Canadian literature in the fifties, to his cultural commentaries of the sixties, seventies, and eighties (including all his essays from The Bush Garden and Divisions on a Ground), Northrop Frye on Canada is vivid testimony to his position as an astute critic of his country's literature and a vital participant in its cultural evolution. All of Frye's writings on Canadian literature and culture - essays, articles, reviews, and speeches - are published in their entirety and are accompanied by a detailed introduction and contextual headnotes to each piece. Gathered from more than fifty years of Frye's career, the collection shows Frye as a careful and caring critic of Canada, and is demonstrative of his importance as the cultural commentator on Canada. Zusammenfassung Brings together all of the writings of Northrop Frye! both published and unpublished! on the subject of Canadian literature and culture! from his early book reviews of the 1930s and 1940s through his cultural commentaries of the 60s! 70s! and 80s.

Product details

• Authors: Northrop Frye, Estate of Northrop Frye, Northrop Estate of Northrop Frye Frye, Robert D. Denham
• Assisted by: David Staines (Editor), Jean O'Grady (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 05.04.2003
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780802037107
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3710-7
• Pages: 736
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye; Collected Works of Northrop Fr > 12; Collected Works of Northrop Frye; Collected Works of Northrop Fr > 12
• Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian