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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
- Northrop Frye
- History
- 1982
Considered by many to be Northrop Frye's magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible. In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin… Expand
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
- Northrop Frye
- Psychology
- 19 May 2020
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of… Expand
A Natural Perspective: The Development Of Shakespearean Comedy And Romance.
- Northrop Frye
- Art
- 24 January 1971
In A Natural Perspective, distinguished critic Northrop Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances - Pericles, Cymbeline, The… Expand
The Archetypes of Literature
- Northrop Frye
- 2007
To see and to study the principles of optics are obviously different kinds of experiences; to enjoy a novel and to criticize it are equally different. Seeing and enjoying cannot be taught, but… Expand
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The double vision : language and meaning in religion
- Northrop Frye
- Psychology, History
- 21 January 1995
The publication in 1982 of Northrop Frye's The Great Code: The Bible and Literature was a literary event of major significance. Frye took what he called 'a fresh and firsthand look' at the Bible and… Expand
Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society
- Northrop Frye
- Art
- 1976
This collection of a dozen major essays written in recent year is vintage Frye-the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus… Expand