Research Catalog

Title

Northrop Frye's fiction and miscellaneous writings / edited by Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani.

Author

Frye, Northrop.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Denham, Robert D.
• Dolzani, Michael, 1951-

Description

xxi, 519 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"The thirteenth and final volume of previously unpublished writings by Northrop Frye gathers together autobiographical reflections, short stories, an unfinished novel, and commentary on a wide range of topics from Canadian culture to religion. Drawn from holdings in the Frye archives - holograph notebooks, typed notes, and typescripts - these writings have been largely inaccessible to Frye scholars until now." "Some of the contents of this volume, Frye's early fiction efforts, for example, will come as a surprise to those primarily acquainted with his published criticism. All of his fables and dialogues are included here, as are a half-dozen sets of notes in which he speculates on fictional forms that he dreams of one day writing. These and the other pieces in this miscellany offer further evidence of Frye's fertile mind, quick wit, expansive imagination, and verbal power. Frye always claimed that the process of writing for him was a search for proper formulas through which to communicate. The material in this volume, which seldom fails to instruct and delight, discloses the process of that search."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Collected works of Northrop Frye ; v. 25
• Frye, Northrop. Works ; v. 25.

Subjects

• Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991
• Frye, Northrop > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 > Notes, esquisses, etc

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-482) and index.

Contents

1. Autobiographical Reflections -- Notebook 42b: Autobiographical Notes I -- Autobiographical Notes II: 3 Outline of the Ogdoad -- Autobiographical Notes III: First Memories -- Autobiographical Notes IV: The Critic and the Writer -- Notebook 30r: Autobiographical Notes V: Injunctions -- Memoir: Helen Kemp Frye -- John Robins Eulogy -- Memories of Victoria College -- Speech at Moncton's Centennial Celebration: Diversity in Unity -- 2. Short Stories, Unfinished Novel, and Speculations on Fiction Writing -- Eight Fables -- The Ghost -- Fable ... in the Nineteenth-Century Idiom -- Face to Face -- Affable Angel -- The Resurgent -- Prelude -- Incident from The Golden Bough -- Interpreter's Parlour -- The Locust-Eaters: Frye's Unfinished Novel -- From Notebook 2: Chapters 1-4 -- From Notebook 1: Notes on Character and Style -- From Notebook 30m: Sketching the Plot -- Notebook 4: Early Reflections on Fiction Writing -- New Fictional Formulas -- From Notebook 20: The Double Vision -- Notebook 28: Philosophical Romance -- From Notebook 30o: Journey-through-States-of-Being Fiction -- From Notebook 2: Bardo Novel -- The Academic Novel -- Notes on Twilight -- 3. Music and the Visual Arts -- Notebook 5: Baroque and Classical Composers -- Notebook 17: William Byrd -- Modal Harmony in Music -- Hart House Quartet -- Bach Recital -- Notes for "The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal" -- Notes for "Literature and the Visual Arts" -- 4. Canada and Culture -- On Violence -- Television Violence -- Canadian Literature and Culture -- Notes for "Culture as Interpenetration" -- Notes for "Criticism and Environment" (1) -- Notes for "Criticism and Environment" (2) -- Notes for "The Human and the Humane" -- Harold Innis -- The Governor General's Awards -- Introduction to Canadian Literature: Moscow Talk -- Notes for "Levels of Cultural Identity" -- 5. Literature -- The Reversal of Reality -- A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus's Speech -- Notes for "Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility" -- Jane Austen -- Notebook 30a: Thomas Carlyle -- Notebook 30b: Matthew Arnold -- Notebook 30c: John Stuart Mill -- George Bernard Shaw -- T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets -- Notes on "Vico Bruno, and the Wake" -- W.H. Auden's For the Time Being -- Notes for "Approaching the Lyric" -- 6. Criticism, Language, and Education -- Reconsidering Levels of Meaning -- Preface to Essays on Myth -- Charles Ponce's Kabbalah -- Literature and Language -- Reconciliation with Nature -- On Translation -- Critical Views -- Framework and Assumption -- Paul de Man -- Preface to Essays Translated into Russian -- On Language -- On Education I -- On Education II -- On Education III -- 7. The Bible and Religion -- Summa -- Review of Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Vol. 3 -- Blake's Job Illustrations -- Parallels -- Contrasts -- Notes for "The Dialectic of Belief and Vision" -- Notes for "The Bride from a Strange Land" -- Notes for "Crime and Sin in the Bible" -- Words with Power Themes -- Words with Power: Draft Introduction.

ISBN

• 9780802093028
• 0802093027

OCLC

• ocn141842319
• 141842319
• SCSB-5385796

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries