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Robert D. Denham - Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World - 9780813922997 - V9780813922997
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Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World

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Description for Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World Hardcover. There is a preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. This book shows that it played a greater role than assumed - religion was central to practically everything Frye wrote. It focuses on the works with which Frye began and ended his career - "Fearful Symmetry" and, 50 years on, his two studies of the Bible and "The Double Vision". Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
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,...
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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 in both Eastern religious texts and in esoteric traditions ranging from astrology to the Kabbalah. Denham does not attempt to distill a theology from Frye's work; rather, he seeks to trace the movement of Frye's thought, demonstrating the imaginative use to which he put his wide-ranging reading. The result is a pivotal work, redefining our understanding of one of the most important humanists of the twentieth century.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813922997
SKU
V9780813922997
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About Robert D. Denham
Robert D. Denham, John P. Fishwick Professor Emeritus of English at Roanoke College, is the author or editor of numerous books on Northrop Frye, including several volumes of the Collected Works.

Reviews for Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World
The most important book on Frye by a single author to date.... The remarkable and detailed scholarship that has gone into this book represents a real achievement, a fitting crown to Denham's lifelong commitment to Frye's work. - P. Joseph Adamson, Professor of English, McMaster University, Ontario, author of Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life

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