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Northrop Frye (1912–1991)

Autor(a) de Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

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Herman Northrop Frye was born in 1912 in Quebec, Canada. His mother educated him at home until the fourth grade. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he studied theology at Emmanuel College for several years and actually worked as a pastor before deciding he preferred the academic life. mostrar mais He eventually obtained his master's degree from Oxford, and taught English at the University of Toronto for more than four decades. Frye's first two books, Fearful Symmetry (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism (1957) set forth the influential literary principles upon which he continued to elaborate in his numerous later works. These include Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, The Well-Tempered Critic, and The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Frye died in 1991. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Northrop Frye

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) — Autor — 1,514 cópias
A Imaginação Educada (1963) 691 cópias
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986) 346 cópias
A Natural Perspective (1965) 109 cópias
The Well-Tempered Critic (1963) 92 cópias
Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) — Editor — 68 cópias
T. S. Eliot (1963) 63 cópias
The Modern Century (1967) 56 cópias
On Education (1988) 36 cópias
Creation and recreation (1980) — Autor — 34 cópias
On teaching literature (1972) 9 cópias
Northrop Frye on Canada (2003) 5 cópias
Wish and Nightmare (1940) 4 cópias
World Enclosed: Tragedy (1973) 4 cópias
3 lectures (1958) 4 cópias
Circle of Stories Two (1960) 3 cópias
World Elsewhere Romance (1973) 3 cópias
By Liberal Things (1959) 3 cópias
Mit i struktura 1 exemplar(es)
Expanding Eyes 1 exemplar(es)
Hayal Gücünü Egitmek (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Elestirinin Anatomisi (2015) 1 exemplar(es)
Some reflections on Life and habit (1988) 1 exemplar(es)
La escritura profana 1 exemplar(es)
No uncertain sounds (1988) 1 exemplar(es)
Genre/Trope/Gender (1992) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] (1667) — Contribuinte, algumas edições2,200 cópias
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições922 cópias
Eight Great Comedies (1958) — Contribuinte — 350 cópias
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contribuinte — 222 cópias
Blake's Poetry and Designs [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2007) — Contribuinte — 217 cópias
Selected Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1953) — Editor — 212 cópias
Paradise Lost and Selected Poetry and Prose (1951) — Editor — 188 cópias
3 Plays: Cymbeline; Pericles; The Two Noble Kinsman (1986) — Contribuinte — 113 cópias
Hetty Dorval (1947) — Introdução, algumas edições102 cópias
Lawren Harris (1969) — Introdução — 33 cópias
Design (Pelican Special no.22) (1938) — Introdução — 26 cópias
Collected Poems (1945) — Editor — 19 cópias
T.S. Eliot (Bloom's Major Poets) (1999) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Essays on Shakespeare (1965) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Daedalus, Spring 1965: Utopia (1965) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Perspectives on poetry (1968) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias

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I've read enough Frye by now to feel that I understood little islands of this book, but I'm afraid the greater pattern was more than a bit lost on my ignorance.
 
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judeprufrock | 1 outra resenha | Jul 4, 2023 |
 
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Got this for my birthday. Love Frye's work.
 
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"For some of those writers she seemed to prefer look on much of what is called criticism as a hollow show of gestures and illconsidered utterances maintained partly to fulfil the petty expectations of those preoccupied with what can be safely predicted, but chiefly to provide scope for the perceptive to foresee what they know can never come about."


first essay: classification/systematization can be made use of when understood as a negative constraint against the worse kind of writing (that which is "anything and everything")

third essay: demonic archetype of a million lifeless undergraduate essays

fourth essay: an understanding of The Consolation of Philosophy as a Menippean Satire (aka 'Anatomy') does not open the text, though it allows one to heap further praise upon Joyce. Ulysses understood as possessing, "all four types: novel, romance, confession, anatomy." (money success fame glamour). Finnegan's Wake as all of the above plus the 'Encyclopedic': biblical /scriptural component and therefore even better.

Understanding of criticism as an automated process:
"Some such activity as this of reforging the broken links between creation and knowledge, art and science, myth and concept, is what I envisage for criticism. [...] I mean only that if critics go on with their own business, this will appear to be, with increasing obviousness, the social and practical result of their labors."

Erudition has its rewards:
"We can understand [Rousseau] well enough without extracting the myth, [but] there is much to be gained by extracting the myth if the myth is in fact, as we are suggesting here, the source of the coherence of his argument."

And then sometimes we are surprised by an aside:
"Kierkegaard has written a fascinating little book called Repetition, in which he proposes to use this term to replace the more traditional Platonic term anamnesis or recollection. By it he apparently means, not the simple repeating of an experience, but the recreating of it which redeems or awakens it to life, the end of the process, he says, being the apocalyptic promise: 'Behold, I make all things new.'"

katabasis
pharmakos
dianoia
apodosis
apocalyptic - elegiac
… (mais)
 
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Joe.Olipo | outras 10 resenhas | Jun 4, 2023 |

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