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Literary Criticism General

Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature

Vol.29

edited by Glen Robert Gill

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2010
Category
General, Semiotics & Theory, Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442640535
    Publish Date
    Feb 2010
    List Price
    $131.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442685741
    Publish Date
    Dec 2009
    List Price
    $134.00

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This volume brings together Northrop Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, a body of work produced over almost sixty years. Including Frye's incisive book, T.S. Eliot, as well as his discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell, the volume also contains a recently discovered review of C.G. Jung's book on the synchronicity principle and a previously unpublished introduction to a twentieth-century literature anthology. Frye's insightful commentaries demonstrate definitively that he was as astute a critic of the literature of his own time as he was of the literature of earlier periods.

Glen Robert Gill's substantial introduction delineates the development of Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, puts it in historical and cultural context, and relates it to his overarching theory of literature. This volume in Frye's Collected Works is indispensible not only for readers of Frye's work but for all scholars and students of twentieth-century literature.

About the author

Glen Robert Gill is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University.

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