Robert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncover the links between Northrop Frye and writers and others who directly influenced his thinking but about whom he did not write an extensive commentary. The first chapter is about Frye's reading of Patanjali, the founder of the philosophy of Hindu yoga, while the second, discusses cultural mythographer Giambattista Vico, literary history and poetic language. The focus of Frye's criticism was the verbal arts, but he also had an abiding interest in both the visual arts and music; hence Frye's admiration of J.S. Bach. The essay on Tolkien examines the tendency in literary history to return from irony to myth, as well as the role that Tolkien played in Frye's fiction-writing fantasies. In subsequent chapters, Denham explores Frye's preference for romance and his critique of realism, which run parallel to the views of Oscar Wilde, and their strong shared convictions about the centripetal thrust of art, and about criticism being as creative as literature. Frye's appreciation for Whitehead's concept of interpenetration in Science in the Modern World became a key feature of Frye's speculations about the highest reaches of literature and religion. Frye is clearly indebted to Martin Buber, particularly his influential meditation I and Thou. Aristotle, an important influence upon Frye, was partially filtered through R.S. Crane and his The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry. Finally, the relationship between Frye and his Oxford tutor Edmund Blunden are explored, while the last is an essay on Frye and M.H. Abrams on how Frye's critical project might be viewed developed in Abrams's The Mirror and the Lamp. This book is published in English. - Robert D. Denham poursuit son examen d'ecrivains et autres influences qui ont marque l'eminent critique Northrop Frye, mais sur lesquels celui-ci n'avait pas consacre de reflexions tres developpees. Le premier chapitre porte sur la lecture que fait Frye de Patanjali, le fondateur de la philosophie du yoga hindou, et le deuxieme, sur le mythographe culturel Giambattista Vico, l'histoire litteraire et le langage poetique. Frye s'interessait aux arts visuels et a la musique et Denham approfondit l'influence de J.S. Bach sur Frye. Le chapitre sur Tolkien porte sur la tendance en histoire litteraire de passer de l'ironie au mythe, mais aussi sur l'ascendant de Tolkien sur la fiction fantaisiste de Frye. Dans les chapitres suivants, Denham explore la preference de Frye pour le romantique et sa critique du realisme, qui trouvent echo chez Oscar Wilde, de meme que leur conviction, partagee, de l'importance de l'art, et de la critique comme etant aussi creative que la litterature. L'admiration de Frye pour le concept d'interpenetration presente dans le Science in the Modern World de Whitehead est devenue un element cle des reflexions de Frye sur la portee de la litterature et de la religion. Denham explore aussi le lien entre Frye et Martin Buber, dont la meditation I and Thou l'a beaucoup inspire, et celui entre Frye et R.S. Crane, qui parle beaucoup d'Aristote dans son ouvrage The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry. Le chapitre 9 explore la relation entre Frye et son tuteur d'Oxford, Edmund Blunden, alors que le dernier chapitre porte sur Frye et M.H. Abrams, et notamment sur le projet critique de Frye compris a la lumiere du cadre sur la theorie critique developpe par Abrams dans The Mirror and the Lamp. Ce livre est publie en anglais.

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ISBN 9780776626703
Author Robert D. Denham
Format Paperback
Page Count 212
Imprint University of Ottawa Press
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Weight(grams) 260g