Northrop Frye and Others : The Order of Words

Robert D. Denham

Description

Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans ce deuxième de trois volumes, son analyse poussée des grands penseurs, documents et traditions intellectuelles qui ont marqué la vision du théoricien et critique littéraire de renom, Northrop Frye : les sutras mahayana, Machiavel, Rabelais, Boehme, Hegel, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Jane Ellen Harrison et Elizabeth Fraser.

Cet ouvrage, fondé sur des recherches archivistiques et historiques approfondies, documente au fil des mentions repérées dans les textes de Frye, les rares références à ces sources, et offre une analyse de la façon dont celles-ci ont façonné la pensée de Frye. Dans chaque chapitre consacré à une influence spécifique, Denham décrit la façon dont Frye a pris connaissance de ces sources, comment il les a interprétées, puis la façon dont il a adapté certaines idées et les a appliquées à ses propres systèmes conceptuels.

Denham propose une fine analyse des contextes historique et intellectuel dans lesquels se situait Frye, jetant un nouvel éclairage sur l’oeuvre d’un des plus grands théoriciens de la littérature et de la culture du XXe siècle. 

Comprend une vingtaine de photos, des tableaux et des figures, de même qu’un chapitre portant sur la relation entre Frye et Elizabeth Fraser.

This book, based on extensive archival and historical work, identifies and brings to light additional and littlerecognized intellectual influences on Frye, and analyzes how they informed his thought. These are variously

major thinkers, sets of texts, and intellectual traditions: the Mahayana Sutras, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Boehme, Hegel, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Jane Ellen Harrison and Elizabeth Fraser.

In each chapter, dedicated to Frye’s connection to a specific influence, Denham describes how Frye became acquainted with each, and how he interpreted and adapted certain ideas from them to help work out his own conceptual systems. Denham offers insights on Frye’s relationship with his historical and intellectual contexts, provides valuable additional context for understanding the work of one of the 20th century’s leading scholars of literature and culture.

Includes over 20 photos, tables and figures, as well as a chapter on Frye’s personal relationship with Elizabeth Fraser.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Theory
• Semiotics
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Elizabeth Fraser
• Northrop Frye
• Machiavelli

Informations

• Publié par: Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa
• Date de parution: 16 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780776625454
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

The University of Ottawa Press gratefully acknowledges the support extended to its publishing list by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Forest by Kazuo Nakamura, 1953, oil on masonite. Collection of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Gift of Charles E. McFaddin, 1974.

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Northrop Frye and the order of words / Robert D. Denham.
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BOOKS BY ROBERT D. DENHAM
Northrop Frye: An Enumerative Bibliography. 1974.
Northrop Frye and Critical Method. 1978.
Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. 1987.
Northrop Frye: A Bibliography of His Published Writings, 1931-2004. 2004.
Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World. 2004.
Charles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007. 2008.
The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1963-1990. 2009.
Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography. 2010.
A Northrop Frye Handbook. 2012.
A Charles Wright Bibliography. 2015.
Essays on Northrop Frye: Word and Spirit. 2015.
Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking. 2015.
BOOKS EDITED BY ROBERT D. DENHAM
Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: A Collection of Review Essays. 1978.
Reading the World: Selected Writings by Northrop Frye, 1935-1974. 1990.
Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays by Northrop Frye, 1974-1989. 1991.
Visionary Poetics: Essays on Northrop Frye s Criticism, with Thomas Willard. 1991.
A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye. 1991.
The Eternal Act of Creation: Essays by Northrop Frye, 1979-1990. 1993.
The Legacy of Northrop Frye, with Alvin A. Lee. 1994.
*The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1935. 1996.
*The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1936-1939. 1996.
*Northrop Frye s Student Essays, 1932-1938. 1997.
*Northrop Frye s Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (first of two volumes). 2000.
*Northrop Frye s Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (second of two volumes. 2000.
*Northrop Frye s Diaries, 1942-1955. 2001.
*Northrop Frye on Literature and Society: Unpublished Papers. 2002.
*Northrop Frye s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts. 2003.
Northrop Frye Unbuttoned: Wit and Wisdom from Frye s Notebooks and Diaries. 2004.
*Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye. 2006.
*Northrop Frye s Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings, with Michael Dolzani. 2007.
*Northrop Frye s Notebooks for Anatomy of Criticism. 2007.
Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006. 2009.
Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991. 2009.
Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s. 2011.
A Northrop Frye Chrestomathy. 2015.
Northrop Frye s Uncollected Prose. 2015.
Helen Kemp Frye s Writings on Art. 2016.
Northrop Frye s Lectures: Student Notes from His Courses, 1947-1955. 2016.
* = Included in Collected Works of Northrop Frye
For Thomas Willard
Contents
INTRODUCTION
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
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1: FRYE AND THE MAHAYANA SUTRAS
Frye and the East
The Sutras
The Lankavatara Sutra
The Avatamsaka Sutra
The Translation of Ideas
Holism and Interpenetration
The Avatamsaka Sutra Revisited
The Incarnation and Interpenetration
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2: FRYE AND NICCOL MACHIAVELLI
Machiavellian in English Renaissance Drama
Virt
Hypocrisy and Personhood
Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and Hypocrisy Upward
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3: FRYE AND FRAN OIS RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel as an Anatomy
Rhythm
Giantism and Allegory
The Seattle Illumination and the Oracle of the Bottle
Creative Descent
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4: FRYE AND JACOB BOEHME
Blake and Boehme
The Deification of the Void
Nothing: Boehme, Eckhart, and The Cloud of Unknowing
Schematic Thinking and the Kabbalah
Numbers and Synchronicity
Coincidentia Oppositorum
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5: FRYE AND G. W. F. HEGEL
Appropriating Hegel as a Student
Dialectic
The Hegelian Aufhebung
Aufhebung at Work
Ladder
Levels of Meaning
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6: FRYE AND SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Logos and the One Big Book
The Imagination
Interpenetration
Aphorism
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7: FRYE AND THOMAS CARLYLE
The Diagrammatic Basis of Thought
Work
The Hero and Heroism
Symbolism
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8: FRYE AND JOHN STUART MILL
Liberty
Liberalism
Coda: The Opposition
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9: FRYE AND JANE ELLEN HARRISON
Frye s Reading of the Cambridge Classicists
The Cambridge School and the Context of Archetypal Criticism
Dromena: Things Done
Eniautos Daimon
From Fluttering Female to Wise Woman
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10: FRYE AND ELIZABETH FRASER
Elizabeth Fraser s Letters to Northrop Frye
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NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
Introduction
T his is the second installment of a series of essays investigating the connections between Northrop Frye and a group of men and women who had a substantial impact on his thinking but about whom he never wrote a book (as he did with William Blake, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and T. S. Eliot), an essay, or a sustained commentary. The first installment, Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking (2015), examined the influence on Frye s thought of Aristotle, Longinus, Joachim of Floris, Giordano Bruno, Henry Reynolds, Robert Burton, S ren Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, St phane Mallarm , Colin Still, Paul Tillich, and Frances A. Yates. The whole project was triggered by a rather startling remark I ran across when editing Frye s Late Notebooks -his proclamation that Henry Reynolds was the greatest critic before Johnson (CW 5: 236). Who, I asked, was Henry Reynolds? After learning that he was a Renaissance poet and critic about whom we know almost nothing, I was then motivated to discover why Frye lavished such a superlative on so obscure a figure. Although the references to Reynolds in Frye s work turned out to be scant-only ten, and half of those are hardly substantive-they were sufficient to answer the question. At the other extreme is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, to whom there are almost four hundred references in Frye s published and previously unpublished work.
Frye died in January 1991. When his book The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion was published later that year, it appeared that the Frye canon was complete. But when the Frye papers (letters, notebooks, diaries, unpublished typescripts, and the like), deposited in the Victoria University Library (Toronto), began to be examined in 1992, it became apparent that a vast body of material was worthy of publication and needed to be included in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (CW). The project, which brought together Frye s published and previously unpublished work in a standard, critical edition, saw the first volumes of the Collected Works appear in 1996. Sixteen years later volume 30, the index, was published, bringing the edition to a close. Alvin A. Lee has charted the history of the Collected Works, 1 which was brought to completion in an astonishingly brief time. To this expansive collection we can now add Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991 (2009), Northrop Frye s Uncollected Prose (2015), which includes material that was omitted from the Collected Works for one reason or another, and Northrop Frye s Lectures: Student Notes from His Courses, 1947-1955 (2016). A list of all these titles is provided following this Introduction. In any event, the Frye canon has been expanded to some eighteen thousand pages.
The present essays take advantage of this expanded canon-the previously published work and the extensive body of writing Frye did that was not intended for publication but which is now part of the Collected Works. In terms of quantity, the latter is approximately 46 percent of the total (close to five million words). The previously unpublished material appeared in print over an eleven-year period-from 1996 to 2007. It is this material that has caused some revisionary thinking about Frye, the first example of which, coming from a 1994 seminar in Australia, was Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works , edited by David Boyd and Imre Salusinszky (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999). This conference took place two years before