Background
Frye, Herman Northrop was born on July 14, 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Son of Herman and Catharine and (Howard) Frye.
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This volume, the twenty-second in the acclaimed Collected Works of Northrop Frye series, presents Frye's most influential work, Anatomy of Criticism (1957). In four stylish and sweeping essays, Frye attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, principles, and techniques of literary criticism and the conventions of literature - its modes, symbols, archetypes, and genres. He makes the case for criticism as a legitimate and structured science, a science that he would go on to wield with great influence over the course of his distinguished career. Robert D. Denham's introduction to this edition examines the book's genesis, its initial reception, and its relation to Frye's other works, particularly Fearful Symmetry (Volume 14 in the series). He highlights the diagrammatic way of thinking that characterizes Frye's brand of structuralism and explores the meaning of the word 'anatomy.' Denham also provides context for the work, considering the critical tradition out of which it emerged, as well as how it relates to some of the movements that appeared after the waning of structuralism. A key volume in the Collected Works series, this annotated and expertly introduced edition of Anatomy of Criticism will be sure to satisfy Frye's many admirers.
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Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time. Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life." And the critical study of literature provides a basic way "to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in." Harold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world.
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This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.
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(In four stylish and sweeping essays, Frye attempts to for...)
In four stylish and sweeping essays, Frye attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, principles, and techniques of literary criticism and the conventions of literature - its modes, symbols, archetypes, and genres. He makes the case for criticism as a legitimate and structured science, a science that he would go on to wield with great influence over the course of his distinguished career.
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake is a 1947 book by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye whose subject is the work of English poet and visual artist William Blake. The book has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the study of William Blake and one of the very first that embarked on the interpretation of many of Blake's most obscure works.
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writer English language educator
Frye, Herman Northrop was born on July 14, 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Son of Herman and Catharine and (Howard) Frye.
Bachelor of Arts, University Toronto, 1933; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1940; also 38 honorary degrees.
Lecturer English, Victoria College, U. Toronto, from 1939;
professor, Victoria College, U. Toronto, 1947-1991;
department chairman English, Victoria College, U. Toronto, 1952;
principal college, Victoria College, U. Toronto, 1959-1967;
University professor, U. Toronto, 1967-1991;
chancellor, Victoria U., from 1978. Adviser curricular planning and English teaching, Canada and United States. Mem.adv. committee American Council Learned Socs., 1965.
Advisory member Canada Radio and television Commission, 1968-1977.
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Fellow British Academy (correspondent). Member Modern Language Association (executive council 1958-1961, president 1976), American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary foreign), American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters (honorary).
Married Helen Kemp, August 24, 1937(deceased). Married Elizabeth Brown, 1988.