{"product_id":"9780776626703","title":"Northrop Frye and Others: Interpenetrating Visions","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncover the links between Northrop Frye and writers and others who directly influenced his thinking but about whom he did not write an extensive commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first chapter is about Frye’s reading of Patanjali,\u003cbr\u003ethe founder of the philosophy of Hindu yoga, while the second, discusses cultural mythographer\u003cbr\u003eGiambattista Vico, literary history and poetic language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe focus of Frye’s criticism was the verbal arts,\u003cbr\u003ebut he also had an abiding interest in both the visual arts and music; hence Frye’s admiration of J.S. Bach.\u003cbr\u003eThe essay on Tolkien examines the tendency in literary history to return from irony to myth, as well as the role that Tolkien played in Frye’s fiction-writing fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn subsequent chapters, Denham explores Frye’s preference for romance and his critique of realism,\u003cbr\u003ewhich run parallel to the views of Oscar Wilde, and their strong shared convictions about the centripetal thrust of art, and about criticism being as creative as literature.\u003cbr\u003eFrye’s appreciation for Whitehead’s concept of interpenetration in \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eScience in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ebecame a key feature of Frye’s speculations about the highest reaches of literature and religion. Frye is clearly indebted to Martin Buber, particularly his influential meditation \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eI and Thou\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e. Aristotle, an important influence upon Frye, was partially filtered through R.S. Crane and his \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e. Finally, the relationship between Frye and his Oxford tutor Edmund Blunden are explored,\u003cbr\u003ewhile the last is an essay on Frye and M.H. Abrams on how Frye’s critical project might be viewed developed in Abrams’s \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Mirror and the Lamp\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Ottawa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029122728176,"sku":"9780776626703","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780776626703_p0.jpg?v=1763658067","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780776626703","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}