Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

✍ Scribed by Northrop Frye (editor); Robert D. Denham (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 587
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye; 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Victoria College Essays
1. The Basis of Primitivism
2. Romanticism
3. Robert Browning: An Abstract Study
Emmanuel College Essays
4. The Concept of Sacrifice
5. The Fertility Cults
6. The Jewish Background of the New Testament: An Essay in Historical Apocalyptic
7. The Age and Type of Christianity in the Epistle of James
8. Doctrine of Salvation in John, Paul, and James
9. St. Paul and Orphism
10. The Augustinian Interpretation of History
11. The Life and Thought of Ramon Lull
12. Robert Cowton to Thomas Rondel, Lector at Balliol College, Oxford
13. Relative Importance of the Causes of the Reformation
14. Gains and Losses of the Reformation
15. A Study of the Impact of Cultural Movements upon the Church in England during the Nineteenth Century
16. The Relation of Religion to the Arts
17. The Relation of Religion to the Art Forms of Music and Drama
18. The Diatribes of Wyndham Lewis: A Study in Prose Satire
Other Essays
19. An Enquiry into the Art Forms of Prose Fiction
20. The Importance of Calvin for Philosophy
21. T.S. Eliot and Other Observations
22. A Reconsideration of Chaucer
Notes
Emendations
Index