Northrop Frye
Subtitle: religious visionary and architect of the spiritual world
By: Robert D. Denham.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Frye, Northrop -- Religion.
Description: "Even the casual reader will notice a strong preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. In his latest book, however, the esteemed Frye scholar Robert Denham shows that it played a far greater role than has been assumed - religion was in fact central to practically everything Frye wrote, Denham's focus shifts the emphasis from Anatomy of Criticism, Frye's most famous work, and places it on those works with which Frye began and ended his career - the early Fearful Symmetry and, fifty years later, his two studies of the Bible and The Double Vision. This reevaluation is based on a close examination of Frye's religiously charged language and aided by Denham's remarkable and unique access to Frye's notebooks.

The notebooks' contents not only expand on ideas laid out in Frye's published works but also touch on subjects most readers would not associate with Frye, such as his wide reading both in Eastern religious texts and in esoteric traditions ranging from astrology to the Kabbalah."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-345) and index.