author: northrop frye

... exam again . In the fall Kemp had resolved to learn German and had four lessons from Magda Arnold , but her ... Beowulf exam , and Frye spends six days of his vacation reading the " stupid dreary story , " only to discover on his return ...

Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 Northrop Frye ... don't know whether I'm going to be here this summer myself or not . In any ... Wikipedia ). 1936-1937 309.

... John Collier, The Chaser; Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King; chap. 2 (“The Narrator as Participant”), Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper; Sherwood Anderson, I'm a Fool; Eudora ...

... NFS , 118 ; on the final scene of The Winter's Tale , NFS , 167–9 ; on the commentators who see King Lear as atheis- tic , NFS , 111 ; and on the " rarer action " in The Tempest , NFS , 182. The manu- script for the book must not yet ...

... wings to fly at my desire.142 In the tragedy of isolation the hero becomes a scapegoat, a person ex- cluded from his ... divine king is killed at the height of his powers and ritually eaten.143 His body and blood pass into the bod- ies and ...

... Dionysus in a way that Nietzsche ( like D. H. Lawrence later ) misses . In no period of history does Dionysus have anything to do with freedom ; his function is to release us from the burden of freedom . The last thing the mob says in ...

... mountain , and sometimes it is a tree , the world tree which is also the ... seven degrees of ascent after death associated with the planets . This ... story mountain , and as the redeemed soul climbs it he finds one of the seven deadly ...

... Cosmic Religion with Other Opinions and Aphorisms ( New York : Covici Friede , 1931 ) , esp . " On Science , " 97-103 . 14 Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Beyond ( New York : Harper and Row , 1971 ) reports that Einstein and Bohr ...

... darkness of which he has become the heart. The darkness is not the society of black people, but a fusion of that society with the “mean and greedy phantoms”12 of the white world and the ivory trade, the imperial tyranny that debases ...

... question were actually Smart and Derrick . 2 In recalling this panel discussion , James Reaney remembered particularly NF's rather startling statement that a poet friend - identified later in the arti- cle as Margaret Avison - took part ...

... names (eg. Orc from “cor” and Los from “sol”) are wrong. . F.Z. ix (364-72): K2, 131. . J. 3: K3, 167. For war and ... 5 and 25 have been added to complete the pattein; Nos. 17, 26 and 29 ate guesses. No. 17 is based on a passage in America 5 ...

In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin A. Lee presents a corrected and fully annotated version of Frye's text, as well as a comprehensive introduction to help contextualize this important work and guide readers through its allusive ...

... to the skies” (In Eadem, in Works, 1:225). 26 In Aeneid, bk. 6, l. 126, the Sibyl tells Aeneas, “easy is the descent to Avernus” (i.e., the Underworld). 27 Eikonoklastes, in Works, 5:280. 28 “I love to lose my selfe in a mystery; to pursue ...

... 1 . Q - 1-1 [ The Faerie Queene , Book 1 , Canto 1 ] [ 1 ] “ antique ” means Golden Age.1 [ 2 ] Int . [ Introduction ] .2 Virgilian stereotypes . The muse may be Clio / Calliope , which overdoses the historical allegory . The appeal , if so ...

... Basis of Culture In a letter to David Cook , dated 17 October 1985 , Frye wrote that he was asked to review Pieper's ... Leisure , the Basis of Culture . By Josef Pieper . Translated by Alexander Dru with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot ...

... incest , very often of father and daughter . In the Apollonius story , retold by Gower and the basis of ... game of chess to be different , but we do not want the conventions of the game itself to alter , or to see a chess game in which ...

... conspiracy against them is foiled by Esther and Mordecai ( Esther 2−9 ) . 18 Samson's name is similar to several Semitic words for sun . 19 NF means to refer , not to Genesis 4 , but to Genesis 6 : 1-4 , which speaks of the " sons of ...

... whirlpool , was disgorged again . Eventually the raft brought him to the island of Ogygia , where the nymph Calypso ... Calypso with a message that she had kept ... washing.23 After it was done and the linen dried in the sun and folded to be ...

... Ozymandias theme , and tech- nically a skilful handling of a difficult metre . However , these are some- what random likings in two most rewarding little books . Lamplight Poems ( [ Toronto : ] Hawkshead ) is a broadside containing ...

... Ozymandias theme or monuments of powerful princes . 142 There may be quite a number of these restatements , as the book itself is a spiral curriculum . The spirals are 1 , 7 , 11 ; 2 , 8 , 12 ; 3 , 9 , 13 ; 4 , 10 , 14. 2 & 4 make 22 ...