Northrop Frye and others : twelve writers who helped shape his thinking / by Robert D. Denham.
This collection of essays considers Northrop Frye's criticism in relation to twelve figures in the history of Western culture, some lesser-known, even obscure, who influenced his thinking in various ways but about whom he never wrote anything extensive. The impetus for the book goes back to my...
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Frye and Aristotle : Lumpers and splitters ; The four-cause definition of tragedy ; Mimesis ; The qualitative parts of tragedy ; Spoudaios and Phaulos ; Catharsis ; Hamartia ; Anagnorisis
- Frye and Longinus: fictional and thematic ; The sublime ; Class notes on Longinus ; The Aristotelian and Longinian dialectic ; Complementarity, ekstasis, and the kerygmatic ; Transport in Frye's late writings
- Frye and Joachim of Floris: Who was Joachim of Floris? ; Frye's knowledge of Joachim ; Parallels ; The three ages ; Picture thinking: symbolic diagrams and numbers
- Frye and Giordano Bruno: The coincidence of opposites in Nicholas of Cusa and others ; The idea of God ; Identity and analogy ; The coincidence of opposites and interpenetration
- Frye and Henry Reynolds: Mythomystes ; Allegory ; Poetic etymology ; Ekstasis ; Esoterica
- Frye and Robert Burton: What is an anatomy? ; Varieties of the anatomy ; Frye on Burton's Anatomy ; The final cause of the Anatomy
- Frye and Søren Kierkegaard: The myth of concern ; Speculation and concern ; The myths of freedom and concern ; Concern and myth ; Anxiety ; Either/or ; Repetition ; The metaliterary mode ; The drunken boat
- Frye and Lewis Carroll: Descending and ascending journeys ; The chaste-child archetype ; The genre of the Alice books ; The Alice books as a key to the mythological universe ; A Carroll chrestomathy
- Frye and Stéphane Mallarmé: Theory of symbols ; The pan-literary universe and the katabatic journey ; Igitur ; The passage from oracle to wit ; Recognition and creative descent
- Frye and Colin Still: Still as a mainstream Shakespearean critic ; Still's place in the ogdoad ; Natural symbolism and the ladder of elements
- Frye and Paul Tillich: Primary concerns and ultimate concern ; System and fragmentation ; The Protestant principle ; Jacob Boehme ; Karl Barth and Tillich ; Frye and Frances A. Yates: The Ramon Lull connection ; Memory theatres: the spatializing of knowledge ; Imaginative illumination ; Hermes and Hermeticism.