Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth

Informationen zum Autor By Glen Robert Gill Klappentext 'Glen Robert Gill's "Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth" is well researched, clearly reasoned, and forcefully argued. In addition to providing a good overview of myth theory in the twentieth century, it establishes "Fearful Symmetry" as Frye's fundamental statement on myth and shows how "Words with Power" advances and improves on that statement. Indeed, Gill writes with a range of reference and a confidence that recall Frye's early work.'-Thomas Willard, Department of English, University of Arizona Zusammenfassung With excursions into fields such as literary theory! depth psychology! theology! and anthropology! Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth is essential to the understanding of Frye's important mythological work.

Product details

• Authors: Glen Robert Gill
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2006
• EAN: 9780802091161
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9116-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Frye Studies; Frye Studies (Hardcover); Frye Studies; Frye Studies (Hardcover)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies