The eternal act of creation : essays, 1979-1990

Northrop Frye ; edited by Robert D. Denham

The tenth collection of Northrop Frye's essays, this volume brings together twelve addresses given by Frye during the last decade of his life, along with an introduction to the work of Harold Innis. The essays, four of which are published here for the first time, reveal one of the most extraordinary minds of our time engaging a wide range of literary, cultural, and religious issues. The essays are grouped into four general categories. Those in Part I address critical topics in which Frye considers the relation of his work to contemporary critical discussion and speculates on the therapeutic value of literature. Part II is devoted to biblical topics: the ladder metaphor in the Bible and subsequent literature, the Book of Ruth, and BlakeOs biblical illustrations. In Part III Frye examines four literary subjects: ShakespeareOs The Tempest, lyric poetry, Henry James, and eighteenth-century literature. The final three essays focus on Canadian culture. While Frye returns to familiar heroes, such as Shakespeare and Blake, he also takes up writers (James and Innis) and topics (medicine in literature; criticism and the environment) he has not until now treated in a sustained way. But whatever the issue, these essays reveal one of our most distinguished critics speaking with wit and wisdom about the permanent forms of human civilization and engaging in the eternal act of creation.

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  • Acknowledgments Introduction I Auguries of Experience Literary and Mechanical Models Literature as Therapy II Repetitions of JacobOs Dream The Bride from the Strange Land BlakeOs Biblical Illustrations III ShakespeareOs The Tempest Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult Approaching the Lyric IV Criticism and Environment Harold Innis: The Strategy of Culture Levels of Cultural Identity Index

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書名 The eternal act of creation : essays, 1979-1990
著作者等 Denham, Robert D
Frye, Northrop
出版元 Indiana University Press
刊行年月 c1993
ページ数 xix, 188 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0253325161
NCID BA19461035
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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