Northrop Frye on Religion: Excluding The Great Code and Words with Power

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University of Toronto Press, 1 janv. 2000 - 432 pages

The late Northrop Frye is Canada's best-known literary and cultural critic, and one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, Frye developed a profoundly religious epistemology that informed and infused much of what he wrote. In bringing together his writings on the Bible and religion, this volume offers many keys to the dynamic essence of Frye's thought.

Well-organized, insightfully introduced, and carefully edited, this scholarly, annotated edition covers nearly the full range of Frye's intensive intellectual work on religion. (The Great Code and Words with Power will be published in separate volumes of the collected edition.) The writings presented here span a period of fifty-seven years and range from prayers to convocation addresses. Although remarkably diverse in form and content, they reveal the splendid coherence of Frye's vision.

This is a quintessential volume in the Collected Works, indispensable to all who have been inspired by Frye's work. In it we find the brilliant and often unorthodox record of a great mind imaginatively open to the transforming power of the Bible, and open also to what William Blake called "the human form divine."

 

Table des matières

Humanism in Society
3
Creation and Recreation
35
The Double Mirror
83
Repetitions of Jacobs Dream
91
The Bride from the Strange Land
104
The Mythical Approach to Creation
121
Crime and Sin in the Bible
133
The Bible and English Literature
147
At a Memorial Service for Deceased Students
278
Symbols
287
Sermon in Merton College Chapel
293
The Dialectic of Belief and Vision
344
To Come to Light
360
On Lent
367
Undated Prayers
373
Wedding of Patricia Russell and Andrew Binnie
403

The Freshman and His Religion
239
So Many Lost Weekends
246

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (2000)

The late Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. ALVIN A. LEE is Professor and President Emeritus, McMaster University and Associate Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto. Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

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