The late Northrop Frye is Canada's best-known literary and cultural critic, and one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, Frye developed a profoundly religious epistemology that informed and infused much of what he wrote. In bringing together his writings on the Bible and religion, this volume offers many keys to the dynamic essence of Frye's thought.
Well-organized, insightfully introduced, and carefully edited, this scholarly, annotated edition covers nearly the full range of Frye's intensive intellectual work on religion. (The Great Code and Words with Power will be published in separate volumes of the collected edition.) The writings presented here span a period of fifty-seven years and range from prayers to convocation addresses. Although remarkably diverse in form and content, they reveal the splendid coherence of Frye's vision.
This is a quintessential volume in the Collected Works, indispensable to all who have been inspired by Frye's work. In it we find the brilliant and often unorthodox record of a great mind imaginatively open to the transforming power of the Bible, and open also to what William Blake called "the human form divine."
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 230
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0802009573 9781442677845
- LCCN
- PN75.F7
- LCCN Item number
- A2 1996 v.4eb
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxvii, 432 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604322 (OCoLC)288097572 (CaOOCEL)418005
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- NLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 12
- Credits and Sources 16
- Abbreviations 17
- Introduction 18
- On the Bible and Human Culture 40
- 1 Pistis and Mythos 42
- 2 History and Myth in the Bible 49
- 3 The Meaning of Recreation: Humanism in Society 62
- 4 Creation and Recreation 74
- 5 The Double Mirror 122
- 6 Repetitions of Jacob's Dream 130
- 7 The Bride from the Strange Land 143
- 8 The Mythical Approach to Creation 156
- 9 Crime and Sin in the Bible 172
- 10 The Bible and English Literature 186
- 11 On the Bible 197
- 12 The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion 205
- I: The Double Vision of Language 206
- II: The Double Vision of Nature 221
- III: The Double Vision of Time 236
- IV: The Double Vision of God 252
- On Special Occasions 276
- 13 The Freshman and His Religion 278
- 14 Merry Christmas (I) 283
- 15 So Many Lost Weekends 285
- 16 Merry Christmas? 287
- 17 Merry Christmas (II) 288
- 18 Merry Christmas (III) 290
- 19 The Church: Its Relation to Society 292
- 20 Man and the Sabbath 307
- 21 The Analogy of Democracy 309
- 22 At a Memorial Service for Deceased Students 317
- 23 Baccalaureate Sermon 319
- 24 Symbols 326
- 25 Funeral Service for Virginia Knight 329
- 26 Sermon in Merton College Chapel 332
- 27 Stanley Llewellyn Osborne 335
- 28 The Leap in the Dark 338
- 29 Wisdom and Knowledge 345
- 30 On Christmas 350
- 31 Wedding of Patricia Russell and Andrew Binnie 357
- 32 Substance and Evidence 360
- 33 Memorial Service for Mrs. Jean Haddow 367
- 34 A Breath of Fresh Air 371
- 35 Baccalaureate Service (I) 377
- 36 Funeral Service for Jean Gunn 378
- 37 Baccalaureate Service (II) 382
- 38 The Dialectic of Belief and Vision 383
- 39 To Come to Light 399
- 40 On Lent 406
- 41 Baccalaureate Service (III) 410
- 42 Baccalaureate Service (IV) 411
- 43 Undated Prayers 412
- Notes 426
- Emendations 446
- Index 450
- A 450
- B 451
- C 452
- D 454
- E 455
- F 456
- G 457
- H 458
- I 459
- J 459
- K 460
- L 461
- M 462
- N 464
- O 464
- P 465
- Q 466
- R 466
- S 467
- T 469
- U 470
- V 470
- W 471
- X 471
- Y 471
- Z 471
