The Stubborn Structure : Essays on Criticism and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415696227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 330 str.

Northrop Frye

Opis

First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific studies of literary works in roughly historical sequence. One of the essays is Frye's own elucidation of the development of his critical premises out of his early concern with the poetry of William Blake. Taken together, the essays offer a continuous and coherent argument, making a whole that is entirely equal to the sum of its parts.

Spis treści

Part 1: Contexts  1. The Instruments of Mental Production  2. The Knowledge of Good and Evil  3. Speculation and Concern  4. Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts  5. On Value-Judgements  6. Criticism: Visible and Invisible  7. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship  Part 2: Applications  8. Varieties of Literary Utopias  9. The Revelation to Eve  10. The Road to Excess  11. The Keys to the Gates  12. The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism  13. Dickens and the Comedy of Humours  14. The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century  15. The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats  16. Conclusion to A Literary History of Canada

O autorze

Northrop Frye