Northrop Frye and Others · Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking by Denham, Robert D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Abbreviations 1. Frye and Aristotle

Lumpers and Splitters The Four-Cause Definition of Tragedy Mimesis The Qualitative Parts of Tragedy Spoudaios and Phaulos Catharsis Hamartia Anagnorisis Appendix: Class Notes

2. Frye and Longinus

Fictional and Thematic The Sublime Class Notes on Longinus The Aristotelian and Longinian Dialectic Complementarity, Ekstasis, and the Kerygmatic Transport in Frye’s Late Writings Appendix: Class Notes

3. Frye and Joachim of Floris

Who Was Joachim of Floris? Frye’s Knowledge of Joachim Parallels The Three Ages Picture Thinking: Symbolic Diagrams and Numbers

4. Frye and Giordano Bruno

The Coincidence of Opposites in Nicholas of Cusa and Others The Idea of God Identity and Analogy The Coincidence of Opposites and Interpenetration

5. Frye and Henry Reynolds

Mythomystes Allegory Poetic Etymology Ekstasis Esoterica

6. Frye and Robert Burton

What Is an Anatomy? Varieties of the Anatomy Frye on Burton’s Anatomy The Final Cause of the Anatomy

7. Frye and Søren Kierkegaard

The Myth of Concern Speculation and Concern The Myths of Freedom and Concern Concern and Myth Anxiety Either/Or Repetition The Metaliterary Mode The Drunken Boat

8. Frye and Lewis Carroll

Descending and Ascending Journeys The Chaste-Child Archetype The Genre of the Alice Books The Alice Books as a Key to the Mythological Universe A Carroll Chrestomathy

9. Frye and Stéphane Mallarmé

Theory of Symbols The Pan-Literary Universe and the Katabatic Journey Igitur The Passage from Oracle to Wit Recognition and Creative Descent

10. Frye and Colin Still

Still as a Mainstream Shakespearean Critic Still’s Place in the Ogdoad Natural Symbolism and the Ladder of Elements

11. Frye and Paul Tillich

Primary Concerns and Ultimate Concern System and Fragmentation The Protestant Principle Jacob Boehme Karl Barth and Tillich

12. Frye and Frances A. Yates

The Ramon Lull Connection Memory Theatres: The Spatializing of Knowledge Imaginative Illumination Hermes and Hermeticism

Notes Works Cited Index