The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures: Secular Scripture : A Study of the Structure

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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9780674796768
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Bibles
Publication Name
Secular Scripture : a Study of the Structure of Romance
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Length
8 in
Subject
European / General, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1978
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Northrop Frye
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Item Width
4.9 in
Number of Pages
200 Pages
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674796764
ISBN-13
9780674796768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
666288

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Secular Scripture : a Study of the Structure of Romance
Publication Year
1978
Subject
European / General, General, Semiotics & Theory
Type
Textbook
Author
Northrop Frye
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Bibles
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
4.9 in

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Dewey Edition
18
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His breadth of learning and his consistently penetrating insights lend engrossing substance to his thesis...provide the literary vehicle that enables what he calls 'the secular scripture' to encompass the spectrum of man's experience from idyllic to demonic. Frye literally weaves an enchanting prose tapestry out of this concept., Northrop Frye's criticism is so richly textured, so dense with insight, and so wide-ranging in its references... The Secular Scripture is in fact the most sophisticated study of popular culture, considered on a world scale, that we have yet had., Movingly democratic and optimistic...Frye is the legitimate heir of a Protestant and Romantic tradition that has dominated much of British and American literature, the tradition by which each person reads Scripture for himself or herself without yielding to a premature authority imposed by Church or State or School. This is Frye's true greatness, and all who teach interpretation are indebted to him for precept and for example., A landmark book, essential reading for anyone who wishes to explore the interrelations of folklore and literature.
Series Volume Number
34
Dewey Decimal
809/.91/4
Synopsis
Acclaimed literary critic Northrop Frye argues that romance constitutes a vital mythological universe, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God, and whose plot elements form "the structural core of all fiction.", Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism , a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the realm of imaginative creation. In The Secular Scripture he turns again to the task of establishing a broad theoretical framework, bringing to bear his extraordinary command of the whole range of literature from antiquity to the present. Romance, a mode of literature trafficking in such plot elements as mistaken identity, shipwrecks, magic potions, the rescue of maidens in distress, has tended to be regarded as hardly deserving of serious consideration; critics praise other aspects of the Odyssey , The Faerie Queene , Shakespeare's last plays, and Scott's Waverley novels, for example, while forgiving the authors' indulgence in childishly romantic plots. Frye, however, discerns in the innumerable romantic narratives of the Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of action taking the form of a cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance as a whole is thus seen as forming an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God. The clarity of Northrop Frye's perception, the scope and suggestiveness of his conceptualizing, the wit and grace of his style, have won him universal admiration., "The most sophisticated study of popular culture, considered on a world scale, that we have yet had."-- New Republic The acclaimed author of Anatomy of Criticism on the role of romance as a literary genre in Western culture. At a time when literary criticism was dominated by close reading of individual works, Northrop Frye's sweeping, millennia-spanning investigations of the recurring symbols and archetypes that shape our literary traditions made him one of the most influential critics of his generation. Here, Frye brings his encyclopedic knowledge to bear on romance, a genre whose tropes have echoed through Western literature since the Homeric epics. With its shipwrecks and magic potions, its plots of mistaken identity and the rescue of maidens in distress, romance has often been deemed unworthy of serious critical attention. Critics praise other aspects of The Odyssey or The Faerie Queene , for example, while forgiving the authors' indulgence in childishly romantic plots. For Frye, however, romance is far more than a puerile form of escapism. Rather, it constitutes a vital mythological universe, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God. Its plot elements--the descent into a lower world or escape into a higher one, the discovery of true identity and the breaking of enchantment, the quest where the end is the beginning transformed--form nothing less than "the structural core of all fiction." Drawing freely from an enormous range of sources, from Dante and Milton to Lewis Carroll, from fairy tales to dime novels, The Secular Scripture ultimately argues that the Word of God and the word of man are cut from the same cloth. By recovering our own human mythologies, appreciating them in all their artifice, we can, like God in Genesis, look over the vast romance we have created and see that it is good.

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