The page numbers in this index refer to the print edition of this book.
Abrams, M.H., 16, 18, 65, 170
access of power, 321, 334–338
Adamson, Joseph, 12
Aeneid (Virgil), 190
aletheia, 152
alienation
and the Canadian writer, 85–86, 96–97
human, 192, 197, 306
imagery of, 179, 329
narrative of, xx, 126, 133, 134, 137, 197
and utopia, xxiii, 192, 197, 202–203
allochronism, 89, 93
alouette, 63–64
Always Coming Home (LeGuin), 199
An Ambiguous Heterotopia (Delany), 200
An Ambiguous Utopia (LeGuin), 199
Among School Children (Yeats), 229, 231
“The Analytical Language of John Wilkins”
(Borges), 194
Anarchy, the State and Utopia (Nozick), 199–200
The Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), ix, xxii, xxiii, xxvi, 5, 10, 15, 17, 18, 24, 36, 56, 58, 65, 81, 83, 169, 186, 187, 188, 206, 207, 208, 213, 214, 219, 226, 262, 279, 289, 309
Anglican Church, 108
animals, in Canadian Literature, 62–64
anxiety of influence, 21, 22, 80, 84, 208
aphorism, 145, 156, 158–159
apophasis, 158
Apuleius, 39
Arcadia, 196
Archeologies of the Future ( Jameson), xxiii, 198
“The Archetypes of Literature” (Frye), 174, 232
Areopagitica (Milton), xxiii, 197
“The Argument of Comedy” (Frye), 251, 261
Aristotle, 194
Arnold, Matthew, xxv, 28, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212–213, 216, 230–231, 239
Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 26– 27
Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, 17
Atlantis, 179, 328
Atwood, Margaret, 66, 87
Augusta Chronicle, 24–25
axis mundi, 171, 172, 173, 176, 323, 328, 336
Ayre, John, xxii–xxiii
Bacon, Sir Francis, 195
Balfour, Ian, 82
Ball, Roger, 6, 9, 12–13
Balzac, Honoré de, 217–218
baptism, 117–119
Barthes, Roland, 300–302, 305–306, 309
Beatrice, xxv, 252–253, 255–258, 260–261, 271–272
Beattie, Munro, 63
Being and Time (Heidegger), 150
belatedness, xix, 93–94
Bellamy, Edward, 195, 198
Bellour, Raymond, 287–288
Bentley, David, xvii–xviii
Bérubé, Allen, 289
Beyond Communication, 265, 266
The Bible
biblical allusion in Frye’s essays, 209
and connection to the spiritual world, 39
Frye on theologians and, 113–114, 116
Frye’s interest in, xix, 181
and God, 125, 136
Job, xx, xxvii, xxviii, 46, 137, 243, 321– 322, 324, 330, 334–338
and kerygmatic language, xxv, 151, 236– 237, 242, 334
and myth, 151–152, 237–238, 239, 322
and the Old Testament, 17, 65–66, 86, 146, 191, 256, 279
and pure speech, 144, 159, 161
and Saint Paul, 145
schematic of, 174
and secular literature, 237, 241
and the Spirit, 46
and vision, 39–40, 237
as work of the human/divine imagination, 10
Birrell, Ebenezer, 60
Bissell, Claude, 57
Black, Conrad, 172
Blake, William
and alienation, 179, 197, 203, 232
and cosmology, 176, 179–181, 182
and Fearful Symmetry, 144
and genius, 45
on hate, 118
influence on Frye, 38, 207
and the Leviathan, 65
and the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 193
and the Orc circle, 192
paintings of, 172
on the sacraments, 117–118, 120
schematics of, xxii, 172, 173, 174, 187
theory of contraries, xx, 115–116, 118–119, 200
and vision, 39, 44, 239
A Blake Dictionary (Damon), 172
Bloom, Harold
on the Anatomy, 21, 208
on Frye, 20–21, 23, 36, 38, 41, 211
on literary education, 41–43
Bodkin, Maud, 257
Bogdan, Deanne, 252–253, 265, 266
The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology (Smith), 55, 62, 85–86
Books in Canada, 17
Borges, Jorge Luis, 194
brain, 319, 321, 324–328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 337
Brave New World (Huxley), 194
Brodnax, Amy, 24
Brooke, Frances, 68
Brooks, Cleanth, 18
Brown, E.K., 55
Brown, Norman O., 193
Browne, Sir Thomas, xiii
Buber, Martin, xx, 126, 127–133, 135, 137, 258
Buddhism, xix, 131, 173
Buitenhuis, Peter, 70
Burgess, Margaret, 13, 259–260
Burke, Kenneth, 36
Bush, Douglas, 169
The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian
Imagination (Frye), 6, 65, 70, 80, 84, 85, 87, 92–93
See also “Conclusion” to a Literary History of Canada
Butler, Samuel, 210
Byrhtferth’s Manual, 171
Callenbach, Ernest, 196
Campanella, Tommaso, 196
Campbell, Joseph, 188
“Canada and Its Poetry,” 55, 56, 62, 66, 86
Canada Council, 17
“Canadian and Colonial Painting,” 61, 62
Canadian Forum, 57, 61
Canadian Literature
as cultural history, 81, 85
and Frye’s knowledge of, 57–58, 64, 65
and Frye’s literary theory, 59, 60, 65–67, 82–88
and garrison mentality, 56, 67–70, 75n.18, 87, 88
and the role of Nature in, 59–60, 62
and romance, 81–82
and terror in, 55–56, 62, 64–65, 67–70
Canadian Radio and Television Commission, 57
canons of probability, 44
Carleton University, 2, 17
Carmichael, Virginia, 288
Carscallen, James, 1
The Cat in the Hat (Seuss), 17
cave variation, 328, 329
Cayley, David, 127
Chalmers, David, 324–325
Chaucer, 37
Chizhe, Wu, 26
Christianity
Frye on, 112, 113, 117, 125, 134–137
and the role of women, 258, 260, 264
and utopia, 196–197
See also Bible; United Church of Canada
Cinderella, xxvi, 264
city, 188, 196
City of the Sun (Campanella), 196
civil space. See environment, writer’s imaginative, 86
Classical genius, 37, 38–39, 40, 45
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Robson), 3
Collected Works project
editorial process of, 3–5, 7–9, 10, 11–12
and Frye’s unpublished writings, ix–xiv, 4–8, 11, 12
funding for, 5, 9, 12–13
impact on Frye scholarship, xiii–xiv
publishing of, 2, 5, 6, 11, 13–14
See also Denham, Robert; Dolzani, Michael; Kushner, Eva; Lee, Alvin; Robson, John M.
colonialism and the Canadian imaginative environment, 81, 87, 95
Columbo, John Robert, 70
Commentary, 18
Communion, 117–119
communism of convention, 265–267
“Conclusion” to a Literary History of Canada (Frye)
on the autonomy of forms, 90–93
bird tropes in, 63–64
in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination, 80, 85, 92
and the Canadian pastoral myth, 84–85, 96–99
on the “difference” of Canadian literature, 85–89
and displacement, 88–89, 91, 93
Frye as author of, 57–58
and garrison mentality, 56, 67–70, 75n18, 87, 88
influence of, 80–81
and myth, 65–67, 94–99
and the natural world, 59–62
and romance, 81–82, 84
and self-plagiarism, 58–59
and the sentimental, 93–94
stark terror and, 55–56, 62, 64–65, 67, 69– 70, 85
and the tension between Frye’s Canadian and international work, 82–85
The Confidence-Man (Melville), 278, 283, 291
Congregationalists, 108, 109, 110
Conrad, Joseph, 209
consciousness, 319–338
evolution of, 322–325, 332–333, 336–338
and the four brain types, 331–333, 334, 335–336, 337
Frye on, 320, 330, 336–337
Job and, 321–322, 324, 330, 334–338
levels of, 328–330
metaphors of, 326–328
multiple-drafts theory of, 325–326
See also Dennett, Daniel C.
Consciousness Explained (Dennett), 325
conservatism, 303–307
contraries, theory of, xx, 115–116, 118– 120, 200
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, xxiii, 195
Corman, Brian, 209
The Correspondence of Northrop Frye
and Helen Kemp 1932-1939, 1–2
crane-style evolution, 323–324
Creation and Recreation (Frye), 214–215, 216
creative power, 137, 242–243, 324, 328, 336
creatures and conscious power, 331–333
Creighton, Donald, 65–66
The Cremation of Sam McGee (Service), 229, 231
The Critical Path (Frye), xxi, xxvii, 20, 83, 93, 107, 177–178, 206, 207, 212, 213– 214, 234, 236, 279, 298, 305
“Critical Theory: Structure, Archetypes,
and the Order of Words” (Frye), 27
“The Critic as Artist” (Wilde), 214–215, 216
Criticism. See Literary Criticism
“Criticism, Visible and Invisible” (Frye), xxviii–xxix, 211–212
critics on
The Anatomy of Criticism, 17–21, 65, 169, 170, 234–235
The Great Code, 181
Culler, Jonathan, 26
cultural history, Canadian Criticism as, 85, 88
cultural studies, xxvii, 213, 219, 299–302, 303
Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 28
Current Contents, 26–27
Cuthbert, Art, 234–235
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 262
Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 37–38
Damon, Foster, 172
Dante, xii, xiii, xxv, 176, 179–181, 191, 255–258, 271–272
The Divine Comedy, 171, 172, 253
Inferno, xii
La Vita Nuova, 255
Paradiso, 196
Purgatorio, 190
Darwin, Charles, 324
Darwinian creature (Dennett), 331
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Dennett), 322, 323
The Da Vinci Code (Brown), 159
“The Decay of Lying” (Wilde), 214, 216– 217
“A December Vision” (Dickens), 176
deconstruction, 22
DeGroote, Michael G., 12, 13
Delany, Samuel, 198–199
de Lauretis, Teresa, 254
Deleuze, Gilles, xxvi, 278, 284, 286, 290
Demeter, 260–261
D’Emilio, John, 289
Denham, Robert D.
and the coda to Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks, 35–36
and the Collected Works project, xv– xvi, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp 1932-1939, 1–2
influence of the Anatomy on, 15–17
Northrop Frye Unbuttoned, 231
Dennett, Daniel, C., xxvii–xxviii, 321– 338
Derrida, Jacques, xxi, 19, 143–150, 153– 155, 157, 160–162
Der Satz vom Grund (Heidegger), 150
detachment, ironic, 281, 282, 283–284, 286, 289–290
“The Dialectics of Poetic Tradition”
(Bloom), 41, 43
Dickens, Charles, xxii, 176–177, 230
Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), 278, 284
Discourse on Thinking (Heidegger), 147
displacement, 22, 88–89, 89, 91
The Dispossed (LeGuin), 198–199
Dissertation Abstracts International, 23
The Divine Comedy (Dante), 171, 172, 253, 255
Divisions on a Ground (Frye), 6
Djwa, Sandra, 62
Dobbs, Kildare, 70
Dolzani, Michael
and the Collected Works project, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12
“Critical Theory: Structure, Archetypes, and the Order of Words,” 27
on transcendence in Frye’s writings, 126– 127
on utopia, xxiii
on the Word-Spirit dialogue, 134
Donaldson, Jeffery, xiv, xxvii–xxviii
Donoghue, Denis, 18
The Doors of Perception (Huxley), 193
“The Double Mirror” (Frye), 214
“The Double Session” (Derrida), 160
The Double Vision (Frye), xx, 6, 8, 125, 189, 237
Eagleton, Terry, 17, 26, 209
Ecotopia (Callenbach), 196
ecstatic metaphor, 150, 201, 239–240
Educated Imagination (Frye), 56, 58, 83, 99, 145, 189–190, 192, 228, 278, 283– 284, 289–290
education, literary
Bloom on, 42–43
in The Critical Path, 207, 279
Frye on, 39–40, 43, 215, 228, 229–230, 279
and genius, 40
egg, image of the, 283–284
Elgar, Sir Edward, 226, 243
Eliot, George, xxiv, 210
Eliot, T.S., xxi, 28, 41–43, 45, 159–160, 211, 232
Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry (Heidegger), 149–150, 152–153
embryo, image of the, 283, 284
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 44–45
Emmanuel College, 108
English Institute, 20
environment, the writer’s imaginative, 86– 87
Epstein, Joseph, 18
Eros, 40, 178, 181, 195, 256
An Essay on the Social Context of Literary
Criticism (Frye), 214
Essential unity, 110–111
evaluation and literary criticism, 57, 58, 63, 211
evolution of consciousness, 320, 321–325, 332–333, 336–338
Ewig-Weibliche, 257
existential metaphor, 150
See also ecstatic metaphor
“Expanding Eyes” (Frye), 188, 239
Fabian, Johannes, 89
Fabiny, Tibor, 26
Fables of Identity (Frye), 56
Faerie Queen, 243
“Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of ‘Religion’ at the Limits of Reason
Alone” (Derrida), 143–144
family models, idealized, 304, 308–309
Farrer, Austin, 173–174
Faust, 257
Fearful Symmetry, xxi, 5, 6, 13, 46, 56, 144, 170, 172, 181, 186, 234
feminist approach, 251–252, 254, 259– 260, 265–267
fertility, 260–261
“The Fertility Cults” (Frye), 260
film noir, 279–280, 281, 289
See also; Hitchcock; Shadow of a Doubt
Fletcher, Angus, 43–44, 187
Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy (Frye), 6, 179
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock), 280
The Forum, 55
Foucault, Michel, xxi, 148, 161, 162
Fourier, Joseph, 193
Four Quartets (Eliot), 160
Four Variations, theory of the, 323, 328–329
Four Zoas, xxii, 172, 178
frames, 303, 307
See also Lakoff, George
Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War (Carmichael), 288
Fraser, Simon, 64
Frazer, Sir James, xxii, 208, 261
freeplay, Derrida’s, 19
Freud, 134, 213, 281, 290, 328
“From Poe to Valéry” (Eliot), 160
Frost, Everett, 171
Frye, Helen See Kemp, Helen
Frye, Northrop
on anxiety of displacement, 22
on artistic representation, 287
and axis mundi, 171, 172, 176, 323, 328, 336
on belief, 112–113, 116, 121n.13
Bentley on, 70–71
on The Bible and theologians, 113–114, 116
and Buber, 130–131
on Canadian Literature, xvii, 57–58, 59– 60, 63–65, 81–82, 232
on Christianity, 112, 113–114, 116, 117, 125, 134–137
on consciousness, 128–129, 320, 330, 336– 337
and the critical reader, 333–334, 335
critics on, 17–21, 63, 65, 70, 169, 297
and the designed world, 336–338
explorer of cosmologies, 171, 174, 175, 177–179, 181–183
fashionability of, 20–21, 22, 27, 28
and fear/dislike of Nature, xvii, 60–62, 65, 196
and the feminist approach to Literature, 265–267
and film noir, 279–280
on genius, 35, 36, 39–40, 45–46
on genuineness, 232
on The Great Code as a flawed work, 38, 45
and his connection to the Gnostic authors, 41
on human nature, 127
on identity, 291–292, 338
on irony, 280, 283–284, 291
and Knight, 174–176
on language and literature, ix
on literary criticism, 80–88, 111–112, 279, 298–299
on literary education, 39–40, 43, 215, 228, 229–230, 279
and Marxism, 195, 196
modesty of, 36, 37
and a need for a theory of literature, 83
pure speech, 145, 147–148, 151–152, 153, 156, 157–158, 159–162
on realism, 206–207, 210–211, 214–219, 287
on social mythology, 305
on society, 281
and the spiritual world, 39–40
study of, 22–25
and textuality, 292
on the tone of his conclusions, xxviii– xxix
translations of, 25–26
and T.S. Eliot, 41–43
and the United Church of Canada, 107, 108–109, 111, 112–115, 119
at the University of Toronto, 2–3
unpublished writings of, ix–xiv, 4–8, 11, 12
and the useless relic thesis, 20–21, 22, 25
utopia, xxiii, 188–189, 192, 194, 195–196, 198, 200–203
on value judgments, 44, 211–212, 226– 233, 235
value of prophetic works, 233–243
and the Victorian view of Literature, 203, 207–208
See also individual works; Kemp, Helen
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (Frye), 83
furnace variation, 323, 328, 333
Gallico, Paul, 179–181
garden variation, 329
garrison mentality, 56, 67–70, 75n.18, 87, 88
Gelassenheit, 147, 150
Gelassenheit (Heidegger), 147
Gelber Foundation, 12
genius, 35–46
Bloom on Frye’s, 36, 38, 41, 44–45
and the Christian Spirit, 45–46
Classical, 37, 40, 45
Frye on, 39–40, 45–46
and Frye’s self-assessment as, 35, 36, 37–38
impersonal, 37, 40–41
in literary education, 39–40
Romantic, 37, 40, 44, 45
“Genius of the shore” (Milton), 298
genotype, 324, 334
Germinal (Zola), 218
The Gift of Death (Derrida), 144, 145– 146
Gill, Glen, 23, 264
The Glass Bead Game (Hesse), 182–183
Gnostics, 41, 174
God
as a character in a human story, 125
Derrida on relationship with, 145
desire to know, 149
and Job, 321–322, 324, 330, 334–338
as spiritual Other, 125, 135–136
goddess, 259–260
Goffman, Erving, 307
The Golden Ass (Apuleius), 39
The Golden Bough (Frazer), 261
Gooch, Paul, 13
Good, Graham, 17–18
Good Friends (Birrell), 60
Grande, Troni, xxv–xxvi
Graves, Robert, xxv, 193, 259
The Great Code (Frye), 26, 38, 39, 45, 144, 151, 177, 181, 186, 194, 206, 234, 236, 238, 259, 261, 334
The Great Tradition (Leavis), 227
Gregorian creatures (Dennett), 332–333, 335–336, 337
Gregory, Richard, 332
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 198
Hakluytus Posthumus (Purchas), 201
Halmi, Nicholas, 13
Hamilton, A.C., 9, 12, 211, 214
Hamilton, Mark, 280
Hamlet, 176
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 149
Handlin, Oscar, 69
Haraway, Donna, 253–254
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 5
Harrison, Jane Ellen, 261, 268, 270
Hausmann, Georges-Eugène, 187–188
Hays, Judith, 262–263
heap. See Hermes-Eros-Adonis-Prometheus
Hearne, Samuel, 63–64
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 177
Heidegger, xxi, 147–148, 149–150, 152– 153, 157, 158, 161
Henry, Alexander, 64
Heraclitus, xxii, 39, 145, 178
Hermes-Eros-Adonis-Prometheus (HEAP), 178, 179, 181
Hesse, Herman, xxii, 182–183
Hicks, Edward, 60
Hinduism, 131
The History of Emily Montague (Brooke), 68
Hitchcock, Alfred, xxvi, 280–281, 288, 289, 290, 291
See also Shadow of a Doubt
Hobbes, Thomas, 308, 309
holy, Heidegger on, 152–153
“holy sinner,” 281, 284
Homer, 190
Hooker, Richard, xi
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 156
Houston, Benjamin, 169
Hutcheon, Linda, 59, 84
Huxley, Aldous, xxiii, 193–194
Iamblichus, 41
I Ching, xix, 178
identity
alienation and, 192
as archetype, 97
and Canadian literature, 95
and the dialogue principle, 127, 129, 133
Frye on the mystery of, 291–292, 338
in literature, 95
in Shadow of a Doubt, xxvi, 281–282, 284, 286, 290–291
ideologeme ( Jameson), 88
ideology
and America’s perfecting myth, 286, 288
and cultural studies, 300
and myth, xxvii, 263, 265–266
and the United Church of Canada, 111
in utopian fiction, xxiii, 191, 197–198, 199
imagination
Canadian, xviii, 60–61, 69, 70, 83, 85, 86– 87, 98
and consciousness, 235–236
and the creative, xxi, xxiv, 216
and displacement, 88, 93, 94
and the divine, 10, 119, 125, 126, 129, 200, 202
and language, 236
and literary criticism, 116, 228
and literature, 241
symbol of the embryo, 283
See also kerygmatic language
impersonal genius, 37, 40–41
Inferno (Dante), xi
inscription, 154–155, 159
Institutes (Quintilian), 42
interpenetration, Frye’s theory of, xiv, xx, 128–129, 131–132, 133, 202, 242, 307
irony, 88, 97, 278–292
Island (Huxley), 193
The Jack Pine (Thomson), 60
James, Henry, 209, 210
Jameson, Fredric, xix, xxiii, 31, 86, 88, 90, 92, 197, 198–200
Jarraway, David, xxvi–xxvii
Job, Book of, xx, xxvii, xxviii, 46, 137, 243, 321–322, 324, 330, 334–338
Johnson, Christopher, 155
John the Baptist, 243
Jonson, Ben, 230, 279
Journals of Susanna Moodie (Atwood), 66
Jung, C.G., 40, 41, 126–127, 193
Kahan, Marcia, 17
Kant, Immanuel, 44, 64
Kaplan, Justin, 231
Keats, John, 239
Keefer, Janice Kulyk, 66
Kemp, Helen, xxvi, 1–2, 6, 8, 9, 12, 239, 253, 271–272
kenosis, 135, 137, 148–149, 150, 153
Kenyeres, János, 26
Kermode, Sir Frank, 16, 17, 18
Kerrigan, William, 18
kerygmatic language
and Buber’s dialogue, 129, 130
and the imagination, 236
and literature, 145, 236, 238–243
and metaphor, 150, 161
and myth, 151–152
and theology, 107, 111, 113
Kinds of Minds (Dennett), 322
Klinck, Carl F., 57
Knight, Wilson, xxii, 36, 174–176, 181
Korzybski, Alfred, 194
Krieger, Murray, 20
Kristeva, Julia, 266–267
Kushner, Eva, 1, 2–3, 5
Lacan, Jacques, xxi, xxvi, 126, 133, 134– 135, 161, 197, 282
Lakoff, George, xxvii, 302–304, 307– 308, 310
Lane, Richard, 18
language
and consciousness, 326
Derrida on the promise of, 161–162
distancing quality of, 335
Frye as critic of, 235
Heidegger on the promise of, 161
and linguistic reform, 194
and meaning, 299
and morality, 303–304
See also kerygmatic language
Last Chronicle of Barset (Trollope), 210– 211
The Last Judgment (Blake), 172
Last Judgment motif, 173, 175
Late Notebooks, 35–36, 40, 130–131, 189, 202, 253, 256, 258, 261, 266
Lawrence, D.H., 238
Leavis, F.R., xxiv, 209, 211–212, 227, 231
Lecker, Robert, 80, 81, 82, 84
Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (Ricoeur), 198
Lee, Alvin, xiv–xv, 10–13
Lee, Denis, 86
LeGuin, Ursula, 198–199
Leibniz, Gottfried, 194
Lentricchia, Frank, 19–20, 21, 25
Leviathan (Hobbes), 308
Levine, Joseph, 324–325
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 169–170
Leviticus, Book of, 17
liberalism, 303–307
Lilly Foundation, 9
linguistics, cognitive, 297, 299, 300, 302– 305
Lipking, Lawrence, 20
Literary Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism, 212–216, 218–219
archetypal, 213, 228
and Bible study, 116
as defined by Frye, 83, 227
deterministic, 213–214, 265–266
and education, 215
feminist approach to, 251–252, 254, 259– 260, 265–267
Frye on Canadian Literature, 80–88
Frye on the unity of literature, 111–112
Frye on value judgments, 44, 211–212, 226–233, 235
Frye’s ideal critic, 290
by genres, 279
materialist, 86
mythology and, 298–299
and Ruskin, 207–209
as a science, 227
and the social bearings of, 212, 213–214, 234
thematic, 87–88
Wilde and, 214–219
“Literary Criticism” (Frye), 56, 57, 58, 59
The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin (Bloom), 208
Literary History of Canada. See “Conclusion” to a Literary History of Canada
literary theory, 18, 19, 21, 27, 83, 267, 279
Literature
in the Anatomy of Criticism, 207
as an ideal, 42
in The Educated Imagination, 58, 99, 145
and myth, 305
prophetic works of, 238–241
role of, in society, 228
Literature: Uses of the Imagination, 6
“Literature and Society” (Frye), 207
“Literature in [the] Secret: An Impossible Filiation” (Derrida), 144, 145–146
“Little Gidding” (Eliot), 160
logocentrism, 154
Logos, 145, 160
Longinus, xxv, 240
Looking Backward (Bellamy), 195, 198
loon, mating, 63–64
love, xxiii, 118, 119–120, 136–137, 194, 256
Lowry, Malcom, 176
Lycidas (Milton), 40
Mackenzie, Alexander, 64
Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program (SSHRC), 5
Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Silverman), 288
Mallarmé, Stéphane, xxi, 143, 147, 154, 157–158, 160, 161
mandala, xxii, xxiii, 171, 177, 188, 189, 239
Mandel, Eli, 95–96
Manuel, Frank E., 192
Manuel, Fritzie P., 192
Marcuse, Herbert, xxiii, 193
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake), 193
Marxism, 195, 197, 199, 300
Marxism and Form ( Jameson), 92
Maslow, Abraham, 192–193, 203
McBurney, Ward, 13
McLuhan, Marshall, 279
McMaster University, 10–11, 12, 13, 23
Melville, Herman, 278, 283, 291
Merrilees, Brian, 10
metaphor
in Canadian literature, 59, 63, 69, 82
and consciousness, 325–328, 329, 335
Derrida on, 19, 153
ecstatic, 150, 201, 239–240
of the family, 304, 308–309
kerygmatic, 129, 150, 153, 156–158, 159, 160–161, 236, 237, 239
Lakoff on, 302–304
royal, 197
of silent Beatrice, 253
and social mythology, 299–310
utopian, 191, 194, 201–202
Methodists, 108, 109
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), 262
Milton, John, xi, xxiii, 37, 40, 46, 176, 197, 207, 279
Moby Dick (Melville), 177
The Modern Century (Frye), 281
The Modern Tradition (Ellmann & Feidelson), 214
Modleski, Tania, 290
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin), 281
Moore, Warren, 19, 26
morality and language, 303–304
More, Sir Thomas, 187, 191, 195, 196
Morris, Florence Hill, 24–25
Morris, William, xxiii, xxiv, 191, 196, 198, 210
mountain variation, 323, 329
movies. See film noir
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), 176
Munera Pulveris (Ruskin), 211–212
Murray, Heather, 83–84, 85, 88
music analogy, 188, 202–203, 233
The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail’d (Smith), 158
myth
America’s perfecting, 288
Barthes on, 300–301
in Canadian Literature, xvii–xviii, xix, 59, 65–67, 81–82, 84, 94–95, 96–98
and community, 251–252, 255, 263, 270, 272–w273
of concern, 21, 191, 264–265, 266, 268, 298, 305, 309–310
and cultural meaning, 300
death-rebirth, 261, 262
of the dying and reviving woman, 255, 262
of the dying-god, 260–261, 263–264
of freedom, xxvii, 305
and the goddess, 259–262
and ideology, xxvii, 263, 265–266
and kerygma, 129, 145, 147, 151–152, 156, 157, 159, 162, 236, 237, 238
and language, 194, 217, 236
Ruskin on, xxiv, 208–209, 213
and schematics, 171, 177–178, 190
of secular literature, 237
and social mythology, 306–308
and suspension of reference, xxi
of Tradition and the Individual Talent, 41–43
“Myth, Fiction, and Displacement” (Frye), 210–211
mythology, 298–299, 306
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 255
Narcissus, xx, 132–133
“The Narrative Tradition in English-Canadian
Poetry” (Frye), 57, 89
“Natural and Revealed Communities” (Frye), 187
A Natural Perspective (Frye), 56, 252
Nature, 59–64
negations, xx, 115–116, 118–120, 200
negative theology, xxi, 147–148, 157, 158
neurons, 325, 326–327, 329
New Atlantis (Bacon), 195
New Criticism, 18, 19, 21
Newman, John Henry, x–xi
News from Nowhere (Morris), xxiii, 191, 196, 198
Nietzsche, 40, 320 1984 (Orwell), xii, 198
Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography (Denham), 24
“Northrop Frye: Criticism as Myth” (Wimsatt), 63
Northrop Frye Centre, 2, 5, 10
Northrop Frye Fonds, 6
“Northrop Frye Goes to the Movies” (Hamilton), 280
Northrop Frye Late Notebooks (Denham), 35
Northrop Frye on Religion, 9
Northrop Frye’s Student Essays 1932-1938, 12
Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance (Grande), 261
Northrop Frye Unbuttoned (Denham), 231
Nozick, Robert, 199–200
Nurturant Parent, 304
Nussbaum, Martha S., 64
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats), 239
Odyssey (Homer), xxiii, 190
OED. See Oxford English Edition
O’Grady, Jean, xxiv–xxv, 9, 11, 12, 13, 37
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 176–177
“On the Bible” (Frye), 237
“On the Principles of Shakespearian Interpretation” (Knight), 174–175
On the Sublime (Longinus), xxv, 240
“On the Teaching of Modern Literature” (Trilling), 215
On Time and Being (Heidegger), 152
Orc cycle (Blake), 192
“The Origin of the Work of Art” (Heidegger), 152
Orwell, George, xii, 198
Other
and Buber’s dialogue principle, 127–129, 130–131, 132–133
as the Father, 134–137
and human creativity, 128, 133–134
and the interpenetrating, 128–129, 131– 132
reason for, 126–127
and reversal, 129–130
Spirit and, 125, 134–135
woman as, 253, 254
The Other House ( James), xxiv, 210
Oxford, 108
Oxford English Dictionary, 268
Oxford English Edition (OED), 40
Pacific Edge (Robinson), 196
parable, 158–159
Paradise Lost (Milton), xi, xiii, 171, 231
Paradiso (Dante), 196
Paris, 187
Parliament, Canadian, 17
Pásztor, Péter, 26
The Peaceable Kingdom (Hicks), 60, 62
Pearson, Lester, 17
Pericles (Shakespeare), 262
Perkin, J. Russell, xxiv, 209–210, 213
Persephone, 260–261
personal genius, 37
Phaedo (Plato), 39
Phaedrus (Plato), 194
Pinker, Steven, 304–305
Plato, xxvi, 39, 41, 191, 194, 231
Plotinus, 39, 41
Plutarch, 39
Poe, Edgar Allan, 232
Poland, Lynn, 144–145
“Polemical Introduction,” 36, 83, 211–212, 226–227
See also Anatomy of Criticism
Political Unconscious ( Jameson), 86, 88
Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar), 226, 243
Popper, Sir Karl, 332
Popperian creatures, 331, 332
Porter, Katharine Anne, 181
Portrait of a Lady ( James), xxiv
The Poseidon Adventure (Gallico), 179– 181
Pratt, E.J., 60, 232
“Preface to an Uncollected Anthology” (Frye), 57, 90
Presbyterians, 108, 109, 110
primary concern, 189, 191, 192, 202–203, 264–265, 266
Princeton University Press, xxii, 5, 208
The Principle of Reason (Heidegger), 150
“The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century” (Frye), 207
prophetic realism, 287, 288
Proserpine, 260, 261
prudery, in the Canadian imagination, 87
Purchas, Samuel, 201
Purchas His Pilgrimes (Purchas), 201
pure speech, 143–162
and the autonomy of language, 146–149, 160
and The Critical Path, xxi
Frye on, 145, 147–148, 151–152, 153, 156, 157–158, 159–162
Heidegger on, 158
impersonality in the poet, 146–147, 148
and instrumental language, 148, 151, 152, 153, 160, 161
and logocentrism, 154, 155–156
and metaphor, 150, 153, 157, 159, 160–161
and myth, 147, 151
and parable and aphorism, 156, 158–159
and the renunciation of language, 147– 148
as the secret of literature, 144–150
suspension of reference, 147, 151–152, 160
See also Derrida, Jacques; Eliot, T.S.; Foucault, Michel; Heidegger, Martin; Mallarmé, Stéphane; negative theology
Purgatorio (Dante), 190, 232, 255, 256, 257
purgatory, 201
Queen Elizabeth ii, 17
The Queen of the Air (Ruskin), 208–209, 213
quest, theme of, 82
‘”A Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom’:The Narrative in Northrop Frye’s ‘Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada’” (Lecker), 81
Quintilian, 42
Rabelais, François, 196
Race and Nationality in America (Handlin), 69
reader, 235, 239, 292, 333, 335
“Reading for Contradiction of the Literature of Colonial Space” (Frye), 83
realism, 206–219, 230, 287, 288, 291
“The Realistic Oriole” (Frye), 178
Rebecca (Hitchcock), 280
A Rebirth of Images (Farrer), 173–174
recreation, 118, 179, 188, 190, 239
“Reflections in a Mirror” (Frye), 187, 215
Religio Medici (Browne), xiii
Republic (Plato), 191, 194
“The Responsibilities of the Critic” (Frye), 241, 243
Resurrection (Tolstoy), 218
“The Retrait of Metaphor” (Derrida), 160
The Return of Eden (Frye), 56
Revelation, Book of, 174, 201
Revelation (Blake), 172, 174
reversal, notion of, 129–130
Review of English Studies, 16
Revolving around the Bible: A Study of Northrop Frye (Kenyeres), 26
Reynold, Erin, 13
Richards, I.A., 231
Ricoeur, Paul, 198, 335
Robert Elsmere (Ward), 217
Robinson, Kim Stanley, 196, 200
Robson, John M.
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, 3
and the Collected Works project, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10
Romance, 81–82, 84, 96, 210, 230, 237– 238, 261, 262–263, 267, 287, 307
Romantic genius, 37, 40, 44, 45
The Romantic Image (Kermode), 16
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, xxiii, 197, 308– 309
Runte, Roseanne, 10, 12, 13
Ruskin, John, xxiv, 212–213
Russell, Ford, 19
Saboteur (Hitchcock), 280
sacraments, 117–120
the sacred
and Blake, 115–120
and the feminine, 258–259
Frye’s interest in, xix
and kerygmatic language, 236
and metaphor, 150–151, 153, 157–158, 237
and myth, 147, 151–152, 157, 237
and the sacraments, 117–120
in secular literature, 144, 145–146, 153– 154, 157, 159–162
See also Derrida, Jacques; Heidegger, Martin; pure speech
Saint Paul, 145, 197
Salusinszky, Imre, 227
Satan-Nobodaddy, 135
Sayers, Dorothy L., 257–258
schematics
in the Anatomy of Criticism, 169, 170, 171, 177, 188–189
in The Critical Path, 177–178
and Farrer’s diamond, 173–174
in Fearful Symmetry, 170, 181
in The Great Code, 177, 181
and I Ching board game, 178
seasons in, 171, 174, 175, 178
table of correspondences, 170, 171
Schiller, Friedrich von, 93, 94, 95, 98
School of Resentment (Bloom), 21
science of consciousness, 327–328, 330
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 55, 56
Scott, Sir Walter, 210
Scrutiny (Leavis), 211, 212
Searle, John, 324–325
“The Secret Gospel of Northrop Frye,”144
The Secular Scripture, 81, 82, 88, 134–135, 237–238, 239, 243
self-plagiarism, 58–59
The Sense of the Past ( James), 210
Sesame and Lilies (Ruskin), 209
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock), 280– 282, 284–293
Shakespeare
and the death-rebirth archetype, 261
and the empowerment of women, 262– 263, 267–268
Knight on, xxii, 174–176
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 262
and the myth of deliverance, 262
and The Secular Scripture, 243
and The Tempest, xxiii, 190, 230–231, 243
The Shakespearian Tempest (Knight), 175
Shaw, George Bernard, 193
Shelley, Percy Blysshe, 40, 179
Sherbert, Garry, xxi–xxii
Ship of Fools (Porter), 181
Silverman, Kaja, 288
Sinding, Michael, xxvii
Skinner, B.F., xxiii, 192–193, 331
Skinnerian creature (Dennett), 331–332
sky-hook style evolution, 323, 324
sky-scarecrow, 126, 135
Sloan, Ian, xix–xx
Smith, A.J.M, 55, 85–86
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 231
Smith, Daniel, 284
Smith, John, 158
social contract, xxvii, 198, 305, 306, 308– 309
Social Contract (Rousseau), 308–309
social mythology, 299, 305, 306, 310
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 5, 7, 9
society
and mythology, 298, 299
and narrative, 307–308
in Shadow of a Doubt, 280, 284–287, 289
structure of, 281
Socrates, 36, 39
Spenser, 243
spiritual Other, xx, 125–137
St. Lawrence seaway, 65–66
Stacey, Robert David, xviii–xix
Staines, David, 9, 12
Stevens, Wallace, 178, 188–189, 321
Stoics, 64
Strachey, Lytton, 207
Strickland, Samuel, 66
Strict Father, 304
Structural Anthropology (Levi-Strauss), 169–170
structuralism and schematics, 170
structure of the Anatomy of Criticism, 309
The Stubborn Structure (Frye), 6
“The Study of English in Canada” (Frye), 17
A Study of English Romanticism (Frye), 179
stupid realism, 287, 288
Survival (Atwood), 87
Suspicion (Hitchcock), 280
Sweet Dreams (Dennett), 325–326
Swift, Jonathan, 40
symbolic thinking, 333
Symposium (Plato), 194
Systematic Theology, Volume 3 (Tillich), 112
Szeman, Imre, 89
Tanner Lectures in Human Values, 64
temenos, 95, 147
The Tempest (Shakespeare), 190, 230–231, 243
“Tentative Conclusion” (Frye), 208–209, 212
Terence, 270
terror, stark, 55–56, 62, 64–65, 67, 69–70
theology, 117–120, 147–148, 158
The Rule of Metaphor (Ricoeur), 335
The Satanic Verses (Rushdie), 159
The Self-Tormentor (Terence), 270
“Third Book” Notebooks, 40, 181, 186, 256, 268
Third Essay and the Anatomy of Criticism, 174
Thompson, David, 64
Thomson, Tom, 60
Thoreau, Henry David, xxiii, 196
Tillich, Paul, 112, 336
“The Times of the Signs” (Frye), 127
“The Tomb of Edgar Poe” (Mallarmé), 160
tools, 332–333
“To Read The Dispossessed” (Delany), 199
Tóth, Sárá, xx–xxi
touchstone theory, 230–231, 239
tradition, literary, 41–44, 85–86, 89, 93, 96–97
Traill, Catharine Parr, 66
translations of Frye’s works, 25–26
Trilling, Lionel, 209, 215
Triple White Goddess, xxv, 259
Trites Tropiques (Levi-Strauss), 170
Trollope, Anthony, xxiv, 210–211
Trouble on Triton (Delany), 198–199, 200
“The Truant” (Pratt), 60, 232
T.S. Eliot (Frye), 56, 178
Tucker, Mary Curtis, 23
ultimate concern, 336
Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction (Keefer), 66
Under the Volcano (Lowry), 177
United Church of Canada, 107–114, 115, 117, 119
University of Toronto Press, 5, 8, 9
University of Toronto Quarterly, 16, 57, 232
useless relic thesis, 20–21, 22, 25
utopia, 186–203
and alienation, xxiii, 192, 197, 202–203
and the city, 196
in The Educated Imagination, 189–192
Frye on, xxiii, 188–189, 192, 194, 195– 196, 198, 200–203
as Frye’s “Third Book,” 186–187, 189
and literary criticism, 187–188
and Marxism, 195, 197, 199
and primary concern, 189, 191, 192, 202–203
and the social contract, 306
typology of, 189–197
and Words With Power, 189, 194
See also Fletcher, Angus; Jameson, Fredric
Utopia (More), 187
“Utopian History and the Anatomy of Criticism” (Fletcher), 187
Utopian Thought in the Western World (Manuel & Manuel), 192
value judgments
and the Anatomy of Criticism, 211–212, 226–228, 230–231
Frye on the value of literature, 228–233
Frye’s re-valuation of value, 234–243
and social anxieties, 211–212
on taste and talent, 44
“Varieties of Literary Utopias” (Frye), 186, 187, 189, 193
verbal culture, 94, 298, 302
Vico, Giambattista, 94, 161, 298
Victorian realism, 206–207, 210–211, 214– 219
Victoria University, 1, 2–3, 6, 9
Virgil, 190, 191, 256
Virgin Mary, xxv, 257
vision
and the Bible, 39–40, 237
and Frye’s prophetic works, 234–243
“sadist,” 281
and “seeing from below,” 253–254, 256, 263, 269
La Vita Nuova (Dante), 255
Walden 2 (Skinner), 193
Walden (Thoreau), xxiii, 196
war and America’s perfecting myth, 288
Ward, Mary Augusta, 217
Warren, Robert Penn, 18
Watch the North Wind Rise (Graves), 193
Weaver, Robert, 70
The Well-Tempered Critic (Frye), 6, 56, 58, 227, 229, 234, 283
The Wheel of Fire (Knight), 174–175
Wheel of Fortune, 171–172
White, Hayden, 297
Widdicombe, Jane, 4, 5, 6, 7
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 231
Wilde, Oscar, 36, 214–215, 214–219, 216– 219
Wilder, Thornton, 283
wilderness, 69
See also Nature
Willard, Thomas, xvi–xvii
Williams, Raymond, 209
Wimsatt, W.K., 63, 65, 214
Winstanley, Gerard, 196–197
The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare), 261, 262
Woman, 251–273
as an interruption of myth, 255, 270
the archetype of, 256, 257–258
and the dying and reviving female, 253, 260–264
and the dying-god myth, 260–261, 263– 264
and the earth mother, 259, 260
embodied, 256–257, 270–273
generative power of, 256, 260, 263
as goddess, 259–260
Hitchcock’s representation of, 290
and inclusive language, 268–270
as mother, 255–257, 259, 272
as other, 253, 254, 258, 260
See also Beatrice
The Woman’s Part (Lenz, Greene & Neely), 262
Woodcock, George, 61, 68, 70
words as tools, 333
Words With Power, xxi, 26, 40, 46, 107, 130–131, 132, 133, 134, 148, 152, 179, 186–187, 189, 194, 195, 206, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243, 252, 261, 265, 319, 321, 333
Wu Chizhe, 26
Yeats, William Butler, 39–40, 89, 122n.29, 133–134, 178, 201, 229, 231
Zola, Émile, 217–218