The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975.

This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971).

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Main Author: O'Grady, Jean
Other Authors: Kushner, Eva, Lee, Alvin A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009
Series:Collected Works of Northrop Frye.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism
  • 2. Literary Criticism
  • 3. Myth and Poetry
  • 4. Preface to Bachelard's The Psychoanalysis of Fire
  • 5. After the Invocation, a Lapse into Litany
  • 6. Criticism, Visible and Invisible
  • 7. Structure and Spirit of Comedy
  • 8. Norms of Satire
  • 9. Allegory
  • 10. Verse and Prose
  • 11. Varieties of Literary Utopias
  • 12. Letter to the English Institute, 1965
  • 13. Reflections in a Mirror
  • 14. Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts
  • 15. Literature and Myth
  • 16. Welcoming Remarks to Conference on Editorial Problems, 1967
  • 17. On Value Judgments
  • 18. Literature and Society
  • 19. Mythos and Logos
  • 20. Myth of Light
  • 21. Old and New Comedy
  • 22. Sign and Significance
  • 23. Literature and the Law
  • 24. Search for Acceptable Words
  • 25. Times of the Signs
  • 26. Rhythms of Time
  • 27. Charms and Riddles
  • 28. Expanding Eyes.