The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991 /
Northrop Frye's The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye's thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings Th...
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Toronto :
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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Credits and Sources
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
- 2 Romance as Masque
- 3 Letter to the Editor of Parabola
- 4 The Responsibilities of the Critic
- 5 Comment on Peter Hughes's Essay
- 6 Literature, History, and Language
- 7 On Translation
- 8 Extracts from The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays
- 9 Vision and Cosmos
- 10 Literature as a Critique of Pure Reason
- 11 Approaching the Lyric
- 12 The Survival of Eros in Poetry
- 13 The Ouroboros
- 14 Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate World
- 15 The End of History
- 16 Myth as the Matrix of Literature
- 17 The Koiné of Myth: Myth as a Universally Intelligible Language
- 18 The Symbol as a Medium of Exchange
- 19 The Expanding World of Metaphor
- 20 Extracts from The Harper Handbook to Literature
- 21 Letter to the Editor of PMLA
- 22 Lacan and the Full Word
- 23 Literature and the Visual Arts
- 24 The Journey as Metaphor
- 25 Framework and Assumption
- 26 Maps and Territories
- 27 Epilogo
- 28 Auguries of Experience
- 29 Literary and Mechanical Models
- 30 Literature as Therapy
- 31 Response to Papers on "Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature"
- Notes
- Emendations
- Index