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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Northrop Frye"”.
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Critical Symmetry: William Blake's Influence on the Critical Theories of Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947) ushered in a new era of Blake studies. This thesis examines the influence of Blake's poetry, criticism, and thought on Frye's critical theories as expounded in Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) and subsequent works. Two …
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Antonine Maillet et l'univers mythologique de la Bible, selon Northrop Frye
… point de vue du critique littéraire anglophone Northrop Frye, pour qui la Bible est la matrice de l'imaginaire littéraire occidental (The Great Code : The Bible and Literature, 1983). Notre étude se concentre sur la structure interne du monde fictif de Maillet, en commençant par les concepts …
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Breaking the silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works by Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison through the lens of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of speech and style
… Stories and Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula. Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of hieratic and demotic style and speech may be examined and applied to the fiction of Cisneros and Morrison. The introductory portion of this analysis begins with a discussion of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theory …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… Said, Jonathan Hill, Jack Goody, Walter Ong, and Northrop Frye. Keywords: myth, metaphor, mythological narrative, literacy, literary trope, action.
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Writing visionary drama: an anarcho-Christian approach to the contemporary British play through four theatre texts by James Martin Charlton: The World & his Wife, Coming Up, ecstasy + GRACE, Coward
… including the structuralist approach of critic Northrop Frye, paradigms and theories from the work and writing of Christian non-theatre artists William Blake and Bob Dylan, and prototypes from early and classical drama from the medieval and Renaissance eras, as well as work by contemporary …
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Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
… culture. Furthermore, I look to the theories of Northrop Frye in analyzing this literature because Frye’s structuralism allows for genre-bending oeuvres such as Hemingway’s. I argue that, contrary to much literary criticism, the Hemingway wartime protagonists are theists who seek the divine in …
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Anatomy of Influence: The Decisive Effect of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism on James Reaney’s Donnellys Trilogy, as Directed by Keith Turnbull
… playwright James Reaney completed his PHD under Northrop Frye. Frye’s thought and worldview are at the centre of these plays and although Reaney based his writing on a local legend from his childhood, it is undeniably grounded in Frye’s work, Anatomy of Criticism. Frye’s influence on Reaney …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… post-war Romantic revisionist scholarship (e.g. Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Paul de Man) as well as French theory (e.g. Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to …
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Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon
… life that go to build up an integrated pattern” (Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 1957, p. 305). More recently, creative non-fiction has been defined more simply as “the practice of writing nonfiction in a dramatic and imaginative way” (Gutkind and Fletcher, Keep It Real, 2009, p. 13). The …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… of theorles postulated by Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye, Fredric Jameson and Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as of the key properties of narrative as traditionally treated in Chinese scholarship on narrative. After the initial chapter, each chapter consists of a theoretical discussion on the main …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… antagonists—Harold Bloom, Walter Jackson Bate, Northrop Frye, and Roy Harvey Pearce to mention only a few—reveals that the recent alternatives to the New Criticism are really not substantially different from it at all. A destructive reading of Bate, Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, and to a lesser extent, …
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
In this thesis, I argue for the re-integration of Christian theoretical perspective in a field—-literary studies—-that has increasingly marginalized Christian perspective since the theoretical boom beginning with the New Critics. I also attempt to take the defining of Christian literary theory one …
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
In this thesis, I argue for the re-integration of Christian theoretical perspective in a field—-literary studies—-that has increasingly marginalized Christian perspective since the theoretical boom beginning with the New Critics. I also attempt to take the defining of Christian literary theory one …
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
This dissertation is the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical …