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The Educated Imagination

The Educated Imagination more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Addressed to educators and general readers -- the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life -- this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to ...

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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays more books like this

by Northrop Frye

In this classic of literary criticism, Northrop Frye examines a variety of approaches to literary criticism, and advocates a systematic approach to the study of literature.

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Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology

Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology more books like this

by Northrop Frye (Introduction by)

In this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism.

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The Harper Handbook to Literature

The Harper Handbook to Literature more books like this

by Northrop Frye, Sheridan Warner Baker (Photographer), George B Perkins (Photographer)

Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, Harper Handbook to Literature, 2/e, offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of literary terms, concepts, genres, and movements.

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Great Code : The Bible and literature.

Great Code : The Bible and literature. more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Literary critic Northrop Frye examines the Bible through myth and symbol, finding patterns in and correspondences between the Old and the New Testaments.

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Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

Northrop Frye on Shakespeare more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Well-known as a critic, Northrop Frye is also a renowned educator. This book, for the first time, allows us access to his classroom. Here he discusses Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies, and introduces us to a new category - Shakespeare's romances, those glittering, frightening, magical plays of the playwright's later years. Dr. Frye ...

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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance

The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance more books like this

by Northrop Frye (Introduction by)

SECULAR SCRIPTURE consists of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1974-75. Frye examines the conventions of the romance and draws examples from classical and medieval literature and discusses the rise of the novel.

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Man the Mythmaker: Literature more books like this

by Northrop Frye

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Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance

Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances-- Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.

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Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, & Society

Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, & Society more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye writes on society and popular culture.

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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye's first book, published in 1947, is a study of the poetry of William Blake, who was a central figure to whom Frye later returned in essays and books. Blake represents two of Frye's enduring interests, the Bible and literature.

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Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye writes on Canadian artists and writers.

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Double Vision Language & Mean more books like this

by Northrop Frye

This is Northrop Frye's last published work before his death. It reflects the passions that informed his life--literature, myth, the creative imagination--and the skill with which he communicated those passions to students and readers around the world.

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Tempest, the (Penguin) more books like this

by Anne Righter (Editor), Northrop Frye, William Shakespeare

Generally agreed to be Shakespeare's last play, THE TEMPEST was most likely written in 1610. Twelve years before the action begins, Prospero--Duke of Milan--and his daughter, Miranda, were stranded by Prospero's brother, Antonio, on a remote and idyllic island where Miranda has grown up happily among the beasts and flowers, never seeing any man ...

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Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications more books like this

by Northrop Frye, L C Knights

Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov Nothnagle: Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D'Aubigne Campbell: The Transformation of ...

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Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks,1982-1990 more books like this

by Northrop Frye, Robert D Denham (Editor)

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Fools of Time Studies in Shak more books like this

by Northrop Frye

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The modern century more books like this

by Northrop Frye

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Correspondence of Northrop-V01 more books like this

by Robert D Denham (Editor), Helen Kemp, Northrop Frye

This collection of letters by future literary critic Northrop Frye and his wife-to-be Helen Kemp is the first volume in a projected series of his collected works. Both sides of the correspondence are included, and the topics include art, music, literature and religion--subjects Frye would write about frequently throughout his career.

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Well-Tempered Critic more books like this

by Northrop Frye

The renowned Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye originally presented these lectures in the early '60s at the University of Virginia.

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Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture more books like this

by Northrop Frye, James K Polk (Photographer)

Thirteen essays and addresses on Canadian writing, teaching, and society by one of the most influential critical thinkers of the century.

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The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays more books like this

by Northrop Frye

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Northrop Frye on Shakespeare more books like this

by Robert Sandler (Editor), Northrop Frye

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The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society more books like this

by Northrop Frye

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Creation and Recreation more books like this

by Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye had a lifelong interest in the Bible and literature. CREATION AND RECREATION is a short book based on three lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1979 on literary themes in the Bible. He was to revisit some of these insights in his more famous books THE GREAT CODE and WORDS WITH POWER.

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