Northrop Frye on Religion (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) - Softcover

Northrop Frye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802079202 ISBN 13: 9780802079206

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2000

Synopsis

The late Northrop Frye is Canada's best-known literary and cultural critic, and one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, Frye developed a profoundly religious epistemology that informed and infused much of what he wrote. In bringing together his writings on the Bible and religion, this volume offers many keys to the dynamic essence of Frye's thought.

Well-organized, insightfully introduced, and carefully edited, this scholarly, annotated edition covers nearly the full range of Frye's intensive intellectual work on religion. (The Great Code and Words with Power will be published in separate volumes of the collected edition.) The writings presented here span a period of fifty-seven years and range from prayers to convocation addresses. Although remarkably diverse in form and content, they reveal the splendid coherence of Frye's vision.

This is a quintessential volume in the Collected Works, indispensable to all who have been inspired by Frye's work. In it we find the brilliant and often unorthodox record of a great mind imaginatively open to the transforming power of the Bible, and open also to what William Blake called "the human form divine."

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Alvin A. Lee is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at McMaster University, a research associate at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and general editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye.

Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802079202
• ISBN 13: 9780802079206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Alvin A. Lee, Jean O'Grady