1st Edition

Northrop Frye The Theoretical Imagination

By Jonathan Hart Copyright 1994
    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the centre of cultural studies and contemporary theoretical debates.

    Preface 1 The theoretical imagination 2 Reconstructing Blake 3 Reconstructing criticism 4 The Great Code 5 History 6 On education 7 Mythology and ideology 8 A visionary criticism 9 The critic as writer 10 The power of words

    Biography

    Jonathan Hart is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He is Contributing Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and author of Theater and the World: the Problematics of Shakespeare’s History.