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NORTHROP FRYE (1912 - 1991)

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• Anthologies:

  • Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks 1982-90.  2 Vols.  Ed. Robert Denham.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, .

  • Collected Works of Northrop Frye.  Ed. Alvin A. Lee.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, forthcoming.  [click here for on-line information]

  • The Eternal Act of Creation: Essays 1979-1980.  Ed. Robert D. Denham.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

  • Reflections on the Canadian Literary Imagination: a Selection of Essays.  Ed. Branko Gorjup.  ROme: Bulzoni Editore, 1992.

  • Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-1988.  Ed. Robert D. Denham.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1990.

  • Reading the World: Selected Writings, 1936-1976.  Ed. Robert D. Denham.  New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

  • Northrop Frye on Education.  Markham, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1988.

  • Northrop Frye on Shakespeare.  Ed. Robert Sandler.  Markham, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1986.

  • Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture.  Ed. James Polk.  Toronto: House of Anansi, 1982.

  • Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: a Collection of Review Essays.  Ed. Robert D. Denham.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.

  • Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1976.

  • The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination.  Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971.

  • The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1970.

  • Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology.  New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1963.

    • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  131-139.

• Selected Edited Works:

  • The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays.  Ed. Frye, Sheridan Baker and George Perkins.  New York: Harper and Row, 1987.

  • Blake: a Collection of Critical Essays.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

  • Some British Romantics: a Collection of Essays.  Ed. James V. Logan and John E. Jordan.  Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1966.

  • Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers of the English Institute.  New York: Columbia UP, 1963.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991.

  • Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

  • The Harper Handbook to Literature.  Ed. Frye, Sheridan Baker and George Perkins.  New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

  • The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1983.

  • The Great Code: the Bible and Literature.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

  • Creation and Recreation.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1980.

  • The Secular Scripture: a Study of the Structure of Romance.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1976.

    • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  139-144.

  • The Critical Path: an Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971.

  • A Study of English Romanticism.  New York: Random House, 1968.

  • Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1967.

  • The Modern Century.  Whidden Lectures, McMaster University.  Toronto: OUP, 1967.

  • A Natural Perspective: the Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance.  New York: Columbia UP, 1965.

  • The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1965.

  • "The Drunken Boat: the Revolutionary Element in Romanticism."  Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers of the English Institute.  New York: Columbia UP, 1963.  3-25.

  • The Educated Imagination.  Massey Lectures.  Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1963.  Rpt. Concord, ONT: House of Anansi Press, 1963.

  • T. S. Eliot.  Edinburgh: Oliver Boyd, 1963.

  • The Well-Tempered Critic.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1963.

  • "New Directions from Old."  Myth and Mythmaking.  Ed. Henry A. Murray.  George Braziller, 1960. 

    • Fables of Identity.  52-66.

  • "Literature as Context: Milton's Lycidas."  1959.

  • Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.

    • "Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres."  The Novel: an Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000.  Ed. Dorothy J. Hale.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  97-106.

    • "Second Essay: Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  1045-1072.

    • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  5-13 and 122-131.

  • "The Archetypes of Literature."  Kenyon Review 8 (1951): .

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1442-1456.

    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  500-514.

  • Fearful Symmetry: a Study of William Blake.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1947.

  • "Myth, Fiction and Displacement." 

    • Fables of Identity.  21-38.

  • "Nature and Homer." 

    • Fables of Identity.  39-51.

• Selected Interviews:

  • Northrop Frye in Conversation.  Interview with David Cayley.  Concord, Ont.: House of Anansi, 1992.

  • A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews With Northrop Frye.  Ed. Robert D. Denham.  New York: Peter Lang, 1991.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Anatomy of Criticism (1957):

    • Internet Archive Version

    • Note Access Version [Excerpts]

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Denham, Robert D., and Thomas Willard, eds.  Visionary Poetics: Essays on Northrop Frye's Criticism.  1991.

  • Krieger, Murray, ed.  Northrop Frye in Modern Criticism. Selected Papers from the English Institute, September 7-10, 1965.  New York: Columbia UP, 1966.

  • Lee, Alvin A. and Robert D. Denham, eds.  The Legacy of Northrop Frye.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994.

  • Salusinszky, Imre, and David V. Boyd, eds.  Rereading Frye: the Published and Unpublished Works.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Abrams, M. H.  "Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism."  University of Toronto Quarterly 28 (1959): 190-196. 
    • Doing Things With Texts.  Ed. Michael Fischer.  New York: Norton, 1989.  223-233.
  • Adams, Hazard.  "The Literary Conception of Myth."  Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1983.  263-286.

  • Adamson, Joseph.  Northrop Frye: a Visionary Life.  1993.

  • Ayre, John.  Northrop Frye: a Biography.  1989.

  • Balfour, Ian.  Northrop Frye.  Boston: Twayne, 1988.

  • Calin, William.  "." Northrop Frye's Totalising Vision: the Order of Words."  The Twentieth Century Humanist Critics: from Spitzer to Frye.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2007.  118-138.

  • Cook, David.  Northrop Frye: a Vision of the New World.  Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1985.

  • Cook, Eleanor, Chaviva Hosek, Jay Macpherson, Patricia Parker, and Julian Patrick, eds.  Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1983.

  • Cotrupi, Caterina Nella.  Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000.
  • Denham, Robert D.  Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World.  CHarlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

  • Denham, Robert D.  Northrop Frye and Critical Method.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1978.

  • Hamilton, A. C.  Northrop Frye: Anatomy of his Criticism.  1990.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Myth Criticism and Northrop Frye."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  194-199.

  • Hart, Jonathan.  Northrop Frye: the Theoretical Imagination.  London: Routledge, 1994.

  • Hartman, Geoffrey.  "Ghostlier Demarcations: the Sweet Science of Northrop Frye."  Northrop Frye in Modern Criticism: Selected Papers from the English Institute.  New York: Columbia, 1966. 
    • Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.  24-41.

  • Lee, Alvin A.  "Towards a Language of Love and Freedom: Frye Deciphers the Great Code."  English Studies in Canada 12 (1986).

  • Lentricchia, Frank.  "The Place of Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  2-27.

On-Line:

• Canadian Encyclopedia: Frye, Herman Northrop
• Dobson, Darrell: Northrop Frye (Literary Encyclopedia)

• Heer, Jeet: Northrop Frye Revisited National Post July 5, 2003

• Herring, David: Northrop Frye's Theory of Archetypes
• Marchand, Philip: McLuhan, Frye and the Falling Towers Toronto Star April 30, 2006
• NationMaster Encyclopedia: Northrop Frye
• O'Grady, Jean: Northrop Frye at Home and Abroad: his Ideas
• Reilly, John J.: Review of Anatomy of Criticism
• Sanes, Ken: Northrop Frye, Simulation, and the Creation of a 'Human World'
• Singh, Amardeep: A Small Defense of Northrop Frye 'Plasmatic' literature, and the Creature-Creator Distinction
• Victoria College, University of Toronto: Biography
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Northrop Frye

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• University of Toronto: Victoria University: Northrop Frye Centre

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• Northrop Frye International Literary Festival

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