Preface

Credits and Sources

Abbreviations

Introduction

Dr. Edgar’s Book

Art Does Need Sociability

Music in Poetry

The Anatomy in Prose Fiction

The Nature of Satire

Nichols and Kirkup’s The Cosmic Shape

R.F. Patterson’s The Story of English Literature

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

The Four Forms of Prose Fiction

Levels of Meaning in Literature

A Conspectus of Dramatic Genres

The Archetypes of Literature

Three Meanings of Symbolism

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

Towards a Theory of Cultural History

Art in a New Modulation

Ministry of Angels

Critics and Criticism

Myth as Information

Content with the Form

Forming Fours

The Language of Poetry

The Transferability of Literary Concepts

An Indispensable Book

“Preface” and “Introduction: Lexis and Melos”

The Ulysses Theme and Tragic Themes in Western Literature

Nature and Homer

Sir James Frazer

Interior Monologue of M. Teste

World Enough without Time

Literature as Possession

New Directions from Old

The Well-Tempered Critic (I)

The Well-Tempered Critic (II)

Myth, Fiction, and Displacement

The Imaginative and the Imaginary

The Educated Imagination

Notes

Emendations

Index

About the Author

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.

Germaine Warkentin is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

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