Northrop Frye
Subtitle: Religious Visionary And Architect Of The Spiritual World
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780813922997
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Canada; Canadian; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Frye, Northrop; Religion
First sentence: One does not read very far in Frye before realizing that he is a dialectical thinker, his mind repeatedly moving back and forth between opposing poles of reference: knowledge and experience, space and time, stasis and movement, the individual and society, tradition and innovation, Platonic synthesis and Aristotelian analysis, engagement and detachment, freedom and concern, mythos and dianoia, the world and the grain of sand, immanence and transcendence, and scores, no, hundreds of other oppositions.1