The Educated Imagination
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1997
- Subjects
- Books & Reading, Canadian
Single logical reading order
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887848810
- Publish Date
- Mar 1997
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?"
Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.
About the author
Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of Canada's most distinguished men of letters. His first book, Fearful Symmetry, published in 1947, transformed the study of the poet William Blake, and over the next forty years he transformed the study of literature itself. Among his most influential books are Anatomy of Criticism (1957), The Educated Imagination (1963), The Bush Garden (1971), and The Great Code (1982). Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986) won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. A professor at the University of Toronto, Frye gained an international reputation for his wide-reaching critical vision. He lectured at universities around the world and received many awards and honours, including thirty-six honorary degrees.