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Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. Frye gained international fame with his first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), which led to the reinterpretation of the poetry of William Blake .
Rather than analyze the language of individual works of literature, as the New Critics did, Frye stressed the larger or deeper imaginative patterns from which all literary works are constructed and the recurring importance of literature’s underlying archetypes.
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Apr 5, 2002 · Frye Northrop : 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.
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Jul 26, 2017 · His third essay aligns the four mythoi of romance, irony, tragedy, and comedy to the seasons of summer, autumn, winter, and spring, showing how literature embodies the entirety of human desire and also its demonic inversion; see also Frye 1957 (cited under Shakespeare).
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, work of literary criticism by Northrop Frye, published in 1957 and generally considered the author’s most important work. In his introduction, Frye explains that his initial intention to examine the poetry of Edmund Spenser had given way in the process to a broader survey of the ordering principles of ...
As a comparatist from a country with a small population and a short literary history Frye was interested in demarginalizing Canadian literature and culture during the peak of Eurocentrism, and he made similar eforts for some non-Western cultures and literatures, including that of China.
Mar 26, 2021 · These reviews of culture and literature illuminate Frye's great system of thought as it unfolded during one of his most fruitful periods. In part 1, Frye engages some of the central figures of twentieth-century thought, including Spengler, Jung, Cassirer, Frazer, Toynbee, Langer, and Eliade.
