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Northrop Frye's Uncollected Prose

Northrop Frye's Uncollected Prose

by Northrop Frye

Edited by Robert D. Denham

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Series: Frye Studies

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

480 Pages, 191.00 × 257.00 × 36.00 mm

Hardcover
9781442649729
Published: May 2015

£73.00

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Northrop Frye’s Uncollected Prose, which features twenty-one pieces in the form of notes, prefaces, reviews, and talks, is the latest addition to the impressive body of writing by and about Frye. Among the highlights of the collection are Frye’s “Notes on Romance,” written in preparation for the lectures that eventually became The Secular Scripture; a newly discovered early notebook, parts of which may date from his second year as an undergraduate at Victoria College; and a pair of previously unavailable interviews. Expertly introduced by Robert D. Denham, one of the leading editors of Frye’s papers, Northrop Frye’s Uncollected Prose offers valuable insight into Frye’s early life, his research methodology, and thought process, and is further proof of the remarkable depth and range of his work.

Introduction

1. 1932 Notebook (mid-1930s)

2. Intoxicated with Words: The Colours of Rhetoric (1940s)

3. Review of Books by Rosamond Tuve and Douglas Bush (1953)

4. Neoclassical Agony: On Wyndham Lewis (1957)

5. Review of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago (1958)

6. On T.S. Eliot and Other Observations: From Notebook 13 (1960s)

7. On Finnegans Wake (1961)

8. Notes on the Massey Lectures, Yeats, and Other Topics: From Notebook 9 (1962)

9. Introduction to Fables of Identity (1963)

10. Response to the Macpherson Report (1967)

11. Communication and the Arts: A Humanist Looks at Science and Technology (1969)

12. Preface to The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (1969)

13. Notes on Romance (1974)

14. Romance as Secular Scripture: Interview and Discussion at the Thomas More Institute, Montreal (1976)

15. Preface to Spiritus Mundi (1976)

16. Victoria College’s Contribution to the Development of Canadian Culture (1977)

17. Seeing, Hearing, Praying, Loving (1985)

18. The Soviet Union and Russia (1989)

19. Notes for The Double Vision: Notebook 51 (1990)

20. Notes on Miscellaneous Subjects

21. The Victoria Chapel Windows

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.

Robert D. Denham is the John P. Fishwick Professor of English Emeritus at Roanoke College.

‘Denham’s editing is impeccable; his introduction furnishes a guide to readers who may not enjoy Frye’s plot summaries… This new collection gives further reason why we need to take another look at Frye.’
- Mervyn Nicholson (English Studies in Canada vol 42:1-2:2016)