Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications - Softcover

Northrop Frye; L. C. Knights

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803250657 ISBN 13: 9780803250659

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1963

Synopsis

Thirteen of the essays in this volume were selected from sixty-one papers delivered at the 1962 joint meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association and the Central Renaissance Conference. Two essays, “The Road of Excess” by Northrop Frye and “King Lear as Metaphor” by L. C. Knights, were originally presented as major lectures during the conference, whose central theme was criticism in relation to myth and symbol. Edited with a foreword by Bernice Slote, this book, as Miss Slote writes, is “an experiment in criticism: by repeated views from somewhat different vantage points, the essays present definitions and illustrate forms of a comparatively new way of considering literature—a concentration on myth and symbol.”

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About the Author

Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. 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. The late Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803250657
• ISBN 13: 9780803250659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Bernice Slote