Northrop Frye on Modern Culture

Cover
University of Toronto Press, 2003 - 409 Seiten
Preface
xi
Credits
xv
Abbreviations
xvii
Introduction
xix
The Modem Century
1 The Modern Century
3
I City of the End of Things 5
II Improved Binoculars 27
III Clair de lune intellectuel 48
The Arts
2 Current Opera: A Housecleaning
73
3 Ballet Russe
76



4 The Jooss Ballet
79
5 Frederick Delius
83
6 Three-Cornered Revival at Headington
87
7 Music and the Savage Breast
88
8 Men as Trees Walking
92
9 K.R. Srinivasa’s Lytton Strachey
96
10 The Great Charlie
98
11 Reflections at a Movie
103
12 Music in the Movies
O08
13 Max Grafs Modern Music
112
14 Abner Dean’s It’s a Long Way to Heaven
113
15 Russian Art
114
16 Herbert Read’s The Innocent Eye
115
17 The Eternal Tramp
116



18 On Book Reviewing
123
19 Academy without Walls
126
20 Communications
134
21 The Renaissance of Books
140
22 Violence and Television
156
23 Introduction to Art and Reality
167
Politics, History, and Society
24 Pro Patria Mori
175
25 Wyndham Lewis: Anti-Spenglerian
178
26 War on the Cultural Front
184
27 Two Italian Sketches, 1939
I88
28 G.M. Young’s Basic
194
29 Revenge or Justice?
195
30 F.S.C. Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West
197



31 Wallace Notestein’s The Scot in History
201
32 Toynbee and Spengler
202
33 Gandhi
209
34 Ernst Jiinger’s On the Marble Cliffs
211
35 Dr. Kinsey and the Dream Censor
215
36 Cardinal Mindszenty
220
37 The Two Camps
222
38 Law and Disorder
224
39 Two Books on Christianity and History
226
40 Nothing to Fear but Fear
232
41 The Ideal of Democracy
235
42 The Church and Modern Culture
237
43 And There is No Peace
244
44 Caution or Dither?
246



45 Trends in Modern Culture
248
46 Regina versus the World
262
47 Oswald Spengler
265
48 Preserving Human Values
274
49 The War in Vietnam
282
50 The Two Contexts
283
51 The Quality of Life in the ‘7os
285
52 Spengler Revisited
297
53 The Bridge of Language
315
Notes
331
Emendations
381
Index
383

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Herman Northrop Frye was born in 1912 in Quebec, Canada. His mother educated him at home until the fourth grade. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he studied theology at Emmanuel College for several years and actually worked as a pastor before deciding he preferred the academic life. He eventually obtained his master's degree from Oxford, and taught English at the University of Toronto for more than four decades. Frye's first two books, Fearful Symmetry (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism (1957) set forth the influential literary principles upon which he continued to elaborate in his numerous later works. These include Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, The Well-Tempered Critic, and The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Frye died in 1991. Jan Gorak is a professor of English at the University of Denver.

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