{"product_id":"the-secular-scripture-and-other-writings-on-critical-theory-1976-1991-hardback-9780802039453","title":"The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991 (Hardback) 9780802039453","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNorthrop Frye (Author), Joseph Adamson (Edited by), Jean Wilson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802039453\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e625 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.7 x 5.1 cm, 1.06 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorthrop Frye’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secular Scripture\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye’s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings \u003cem\u003eThe Secular Scripture\u003c\/em\u003e together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrye’s study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they are both ultimately two aspects of the same “human compulsion to create in the face of chaos.” The additional late writings reflect Frye’s sense at the time that he was working “toward some kind of final statement,” which eventually saw the light of day, only months before his death, as \u003cem\u003eWords with Power \u003c\/em\u003e(1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Credits and Sources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance\u003c\/em\u003e \u003col type=\"I\"\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Word and World of Man\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Context of Romance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Our Lady of Pain: Heroes and Heroines of Romance \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Bottomless Dream: Themes of Descent\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eQuis Hic Locus? \u003c\/em\u003eThemes of Ascent\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Recovery of Myth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Romance as Masque\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Letter to the Editor of \u003cem\u003eParabola\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Responsibilities of the Critic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Comment on Peter Hughes’s Essay\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literature, History, and Language\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e On Translation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Extracts from \u003cem\u003eThe Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Vision and Cosmos\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literature as a Critique of Pure Reason\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Approaching the Lyric\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Survival of Eros in Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Ouroboros\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate World\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The End of History\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Myth as the Matrix of Literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The \u003cem\u003eKoinÉ \u003c\/em\u003eof Myth: Myth as a Universally Intelligible Language\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Symbol as a Medium of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Expanding World of Metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Extracts from \u003cem\u003eThe Harper Handbook to Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Letter to the Editor of \u003cem\u003ePMLA\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Lacan and the Full Word\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literature and the Visual Arts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Journey as Metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Framework and Assumption\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Maps and Territories\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Epilogo\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Auguries of Experience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literary and Mechanical Models\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Literature as Therapy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Response to Papers on “Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Emendations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681528082712,"sku":"9780802039453","price":73.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-secular-scripture-and-other-writings-on-critical-theory-1976-1991-hardback-9780802039453","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}