Beschreibung:
First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye.
Part 1: Contexts 1. The Instruments of Mental Production 2. The Knowledge of Good and Evil 3. Speculation and Concern 4. Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts 5. On Value-Judgements 6. Criticism: Visible and Invisible 7. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship Part 2: Applications 8. Varieties of Literary Utopias 9. The Revelation to Eve 10. The Road to Excess 11. The Keys to the Gates 12. The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism 13. Dickens and the Comedy of Humours 14. The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century 15. The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats 16. Conclusion to A Literary History of Canada