Myth and metaphor : selected essays, 1974-1988

Book

Myth and metaphor : selected essays, 1974-1988 / Northrop Frye ; edited by Robert D. Denham.

General Note:: Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: The Koine of myth: myth as a universally intelligible language -- Literary and linguistic scholarship in a postliterate world -- The symbol as a medium of exchange -- The survival of eros in poetry -- The view from here -- Framework and assumption -- The dialectic of belief and vision -- The expanding world of metaphor -- The reaponsibilities of the critic -- Some reflections on life and habit -- The rhythms of time -- Literature as a critique of pure reason -- Literature and the visual arts -- The stage is all the world -- The journey as metaphor -- The double mirror -- The mythical approach to creation -- Crime and sin in the Bible -- Blake's Bible -- Natural and revealed communities -- Castiglione's Il Cortegiano -- The meeting of past and future in William Morris -- The world as music and idea in Wagner's Parsifal -- Cycle and apocalypse in Finnegans Wake.