Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Wang Ning (editor); Jean O'Grady (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawn from papers given at an international symposium on Northrop Frye in Hoh-Hot, Inner Mongolia, this volume offers insights intoFrye's theoretical approaches and the new context provided by cross-cultural questions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations of Frye's Works
Introduction
Frye as Theorist
Frye and the East: Buddhist and Hindu Translations
Kant and Frye on the Critical Path
Northrop Frye on Liberal Education
Beyond Anagogy: Northrop Frye's Existential (Re)visions
On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Problem of Wish-Fulfilment in Frye's Visionary Criticism
From Escape to Irony: Frye's 'The Argument of Comedy"
Northrop Frye and Cultural Studies
Frye and Canada
"Canadian Angles of Vision": Northrop Frye, Carl Klinck, and the Literary History of Canada
Gone Primitive: The Critic in Canada
Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye: New Feminism or Old Comedy?
Frye and China
Myth-Archetypal Criticism in China
Reconsidering Frye's Critical Thinking: A Chinese Perspective
The Universal Significance of Frye's Theory of Fictional Modes
Frye Studies in China: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Works
Epilogue