Northrop Frye on literature and society, 1936-89: Unpublished papers / edited by Robert D. Denham PDF
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Collected Works of Northrop Frye VOLUME 10 Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers The Collected Edition of the Works of Northrop Frye has been planned and is being directed by an editorial committee under the aegis of Victoria University, through its Northrop Frye Centre. The purpose of the edition is to make available authoritative texts of both published and unpublished works, based on an analysis and comparison of all available materials, and supported by scholarly apparatus, including annotation and introductions. The Northrop Frye Centre gratefully acknowledges financial support, through McMaster University, from the Michael G. DeGroote family. Editorial Committee General Editor Alvin A. Lee Associate Editor Jean O'Grady Assistant Editor Nicholas Halmi Editors Joseph Adamson Robert D. Denham Michael Dolzani A.C. Hamilton David Staines Advisers Robert Brandeis J.R. de J. Jackson Eva Kushner Jane Millgate Roseann Runte Ron Schoeffel Clara Thomas Jane Widdicombe Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers VOLUME 10 Edited by Robert D. Denham UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © Victoria University, University of Toronto (unpublished papers) and Robert D. Denham (preface, introduction, annotation) 2002 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-3602-3 Printed on acid-free paper National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 Northrop Frye on literature and society, 1936-1989 : unpublished papers (Collected works of Northrop Frye; v. 10) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-3602-3 i. Literature and society. 2. English literature - History and criticism. 3. Criticism. I. Denham, Robert D. II. Title. III. Series. PN37.F68 2002 809 02002-902649-8 This volume has been published with the assistance of a grant from Victoria University. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). For Michael Dolzani This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction xv I i Rencontre: The General Editor's Introduction 3 2 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 131 3 George Orwell 140 4 Shakespeare's Comedy of Humors 144 5 The Writer as Prophet: Milton, Swift, Blake, Shaw 160 6 The Literary Meaning of "Archetype" 182 7 Literature and Language 190 viii Contents 8 Blake's Jerusalem 196 II 9 The Present Condition of the World 207 10 Leisure and Boredom 221 11 Criticism and Society 225 12 Articulate English 236 13 Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism 243 14 The Social Uses of Literature 253 15 Canadian Identity and Cultural Regionalism 266 16 Icons and Iconoclasm 270 17 Reviews of Television Programs for the Canadian Radio-Television Commission 273 18 Introduction to the Second Volume of Harold Innis's "A History of Communications" 302 III 19 William Butler Yeats 309 Contents ix 20 Laurence Hyde, Southern Cross, and The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes 313 21 Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, and Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas 318 22 Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History and Herbert Butterfield, History and Human Relations 321 23 Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture 325 IV 24 Convocation Address: Acadia University 333 25 Convocation Address: McGill University 337 26 Convocation Address: University of Bologna 340 Appendix: The Social Context of Literary Criticism 347 Notes 3*7 Index 393
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