Northrop Frye's Canadian literary criticism and its influenceedited by Branko Gorjup. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) - Frye studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Incorporating legacies: decolonizing the Garrison / Part 1. The confluence of the mythopoeic and thematic: Frye and Canada. The Canadian Poet's predicament / 'This northern mouth': Ideas of myth and regionalism in modern Canadian poetry / Myth, Frye, and Canadian writers / Northrop Frye: Canadian mythographer / Frye in place / Part II. Frye's influence on the Canadian literary and critical imagination: challenging the legacy. Why James Reaney is a better poet than any Northrop Frye poet than he used to be / Butterfly in the bush garden: 'mythopoeic' criticism of contemporary poetry written in Canada / Surviving the paraphrase / Mandatory subversive manifesto: Canadian criticism versus literary criticism / Bushed in the sacred wood / Part III. Frye's Canadian criticism and the making of Canadian literary and critical culture. Northrop Frye and the Canadian literary tradition / Retrieving the Canadian critical tradition as poetry: Eli Mandel and Northrop Frye / Against monism: the Canadian anatomy of Northrop Frye / Reading for contradiction in the literature of colonial space / Frye recoded: postmodernity and the conclusions / Frye: Canadian critic/ writer / 'A quest for the peaceable kingdom': The narrative in Northrop Frye's 'conclusion' to the Literary History of Canada / The Northrop Frye effect / Branko Gorjup -- James Reaney -- John Riddell -- D.G. Jones -- Rosemary Sullivan -- Francis Sparshott -- George Bowering -- Barbara Belyea -- Frank Davey -- Barry Cameron and Michael Dixon -- John Moss -- Eli Mandel -- Margery Fee -- Eleanor Cook -- Heather Murray -- Linda Hutcheon -- David Staines -- Robert Lecker -- Russell Morton Brown.

Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism.



9781442697577




Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 --Criticism and interpretation.
Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 --Influence.


Canadian literature--History and criticism.
Criticism--Canada.


Electronic Books.

PN75 / .N678 2009