Northrop Frye on twentieth-century literature

Frye, Northrop. (Author). Gill, Glen Robert, 1969- (Added Author).

Summary: "This volume brings together Northrop Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, a body of work produced over almost sixty years. Including Frye's incisive book on T.S. Eliot, as well as his discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell, the volume also contains a recently discovered review of C.G. Jung's book on the synchronicity principle and a previously unpublished introduction to an anthology of twentieth-century literature. Frye's insightful commentaries demonstrate that he was as astute a critic of the literature of his own time as he was of the literature of earlier periods." "Glen Robert Gill's introduction delineates the development of Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, puts it in historical and cultural context, and relates it to his overarching theory of literature. This definitive volume in the Collected Works will be a welcome addition to the libraries of Frye specialists and of scholars and students of twentieth-century literature in general."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

OCLC: ocn707712886
ISBN: 9781442640535
ISBN: 1442685743
ISBN: 9781442685741
Physical Description: 1 online resource (lviii, 445 pages).
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Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Press cuttings -- Delicate rhythms -- Experiment -- Poetry (I) -- Poetry (II) -- Henry Wells -- Irene Moody -- Poetry (III) -- New directions (I) -- Review of new writing and daylight (I) -- Review of voices and genesis -- Review of new writing and daylight (II) -- Joseph Schull -- New directions (II) -- Karl Shapiro -- Kenneth Rextorh -- Idols of the markplace -- A.E. Coppard and T.F. Powys -- George Orwell, Animal farm -- Review of new writings and daylight (III) -- Review of the Kafka problem -- Henry James, Roderick Hudson -- Yeats and the language of symbolism -- The Betjeman brand -- Edith Sitwell, The Shadow of Cain -- For Tory and leftist -- Virginia Woolf -- Four short reviews -- Ezra Pound -- George Orwell -- Novels on several occasions -- Phalanx of particulars -- Quest and cycle in Finnegan Wake -- Graves, gods, and scholars -- Nature and the psyche -- Poetry of the tout ensemble -- The realistic oriole: a study of Wallace Stevens -- Religion and modern poetry -- The nightmare life in death -- Comment -- T.S. Eliot -- Tribute to John Crowe ransom -- The rising of the moon: a study of a vision -- Foreword to 1984 -- The top of the tower: a study of the imagery of Yeats -- Draft introduction to twentieth-century literature -- Wallace Stevens and the variation form -- Aldoux Huxley -- Rolls royce -- Cycle and apocalypse in Finnegans wake -- Henry James and the comedy of the occult.