Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications

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Bernice Slote
U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1963 - Literary Criticism - 196 pages
Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov Nothnagle: Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D'Aubigne Campbell: The Transformation of Biblical Myth: MacLeish's Use of the Adam and Job Stories Hiller: The Symbolism of Gestus in Brecht's Drama Sr. Joselyn: Animal Imagery in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction The Work Examined--Archetypes and Interpretations LaGuardia: Chastity, Regeneration, and World Order in All's Well that Ends Well Jones: Immortality in Two of Milton's Elegies Dougherty: Of Ruskin's Gardens Kern: Myth and Symbol in Criticism of Faulkner's "The Bear" Welliver: The De Vulgari Eloquentia and Dante's Quasi After-Life Vickery: The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype
 

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Contents

The Road of Excess by Northrop Frye
3
King Lear as Metaphor by L C Knights
21
The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard
39
Myth and Reality by Herbert S Gershman
51
Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa DAubigné
61
Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov
71
MacLeishs
79
The Symbolism of Gestus in Brechts Drama
89
Animal Imagery in Katherine Anne Porters Fiction
101
Chastity Regeneration and World Order
119
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About the author (1963)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleMyth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications
Volume 141 of A Bison book
A bison book.141
EditorBernice Slote
ContributorsNorthrop Frye, Midwest Modern Language Association
Editionreprint
PublisherU of Nebraska Press, 1963
ISBN0803250657, 9780803250659
Length196 pages
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