Northrop Frye: The Theoretical Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415075374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str.

Jonathan Hart

Opis

Northrop Frye is acknowledged as a prominent 20th-century critic. The Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is said to have transformed literary theory, and his contributions to studies of Blake, theories of aesthetics, theology and social criticism, have ensured his place in the field of cultural studies. His belief that ideology is everywhere, and that mythology is part of ideology, has given rise to one of the most important contemporary theoretical debates: the relation between myth and ideology, between narrative and imagination. This work surveys Frye's career, incoporating archival material as well as his published work.

Spis treści

Preface 1 The theoretical imagination 2 Reconstructing Blake 3 Reconstructing criticism 4 The Great Code 5 History 6 On education 7 Mythology and ideology 8 A visionary criticism 9 The critic as writer 10 The power of words

O autorze

Jonathan Hart is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He is Contributing Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and author of Theater and the World: the Problematics of Shakespeare’s History.