TY - BOOK ID - 77888903 TI - Interviews with Northrop Frye. AU - Frye, Northrop. AU - O'Grady, Jean PY - 2008 SN - 1442688378 9781442688377 9780802097422 0802097421 9781442692282 1442692286 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Critics KW - Literature KW - Literary critics KW - Criticism KW - Litterateurs KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - Frye, Northrop KW - Frye, Herman Northrop KW - Fulai, Nuosiluopu KW - Farāy, Nūrtrūp KW - Frai, Nort'rop KW - فراى، نورتروپ KW - פריי, נורתרופ KW - Canada. KW - Literature History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888903 AB - "Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of the Romantic period, but of the Renaissance. As such, Frye's meditations on the Renaissance are particularly valuable. This volume collects six of Frye's notebooks and five sets of his typed notes on subjects related to Renaissance literature." "Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masque; and those on lyric poetry and non-fiction prose. The organization of this volume reflects the comprehensive study of Renaissance symbolism in three volumes that Frye proposed to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1949. Frye received a Guggenheim fellowship, but never completed this work; nevertheless, his application, part of which is also included here, is an important document. It not only reveals the outlines of Frye's thinking about literature, it also uncovers his plans for his future creative life during the crucial period between his completion of Fearful Symmetry and his absorption in the writing of Anatomy of Criticism." "In addition to providing insight into Frye's thinking process, the material collected here is of unique importance because much of it touches on topics not fully explored in his other published works."--Jacket ER -