Essays apparently unrelated in subject matter may disclose unexpected underground connections: Frye accepted the invitation to lecture on Wagner, a composer he did not very much like, because Wagner’s Parsifal is a modern treatment of a Christian subject as a descent theme. It is a bit startling to realize that fewer than a dozen of the thirty-seven essays in Frye’s last two collections, Myth and Metaphor and The Eternal Act of Creation, are unconnected with Words with Power, and it is possible to have doubts even about those. Three of the eight published volumes of Frye’s notebooks are devoted to one or another of its avatars: The “Third Book” Notebooks (CW, 9) and the two volumes of the Late Notebooks (CW, 5–6) together comprising approximately 1,075 pages.1 In addition, there is the remarkable number of essays and addresses in which Frye did beta testing, so to speak, of one section or another of his material during the period in which he was actually drafting the book, between 19. It is hard to think of a book for which the preparation was more extensive, or extended over a greater passage of time, than Words with Power. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).Įditor’s Preface vii Abbreviations xv Editor’s Introduction xix Acknowledgments 5 Introduction 7 PART ONE Gibberish of the Vulgate 19 chapter one Sequence and Mode 21 chapter two Concern and Myth 42 chapter three Identity and Metaphor 68Ĭontents chapter four Spirit and Symbol 95 PART TWO Variations on a Theme 127 Prefatory Note 129 chapter five First Variation: The Mountain 133 chapter six Second Variation: The Garden 167 chapter seven Third Variation: The Cave 199 chapter eight Fourth Variation: The Furnace 233 Notes 267 Emendations 309 Scriptural Passages Cited 313 Index 319 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. This volume has been published with the assistance of a grant from Victoria University. (Collected works of Northrop Frye 26) Includes bibliographical references and index. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Frye, Northrop, 1912–1991 Words with power : being a second study of The Bible and literature / Northrop Frye edited by Michael Dolzani. © Victoria University, University of Toronto, and Michael Dolzani (editor’s preface, editor’s introduction, annotation 2008) Printed in Canada isbn 978-0-8020-9293-9 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London Hamilton David Staines Advisers Robert Brandeis Paul Gooch Eva Kushner Jane Millgate Ron Schoeffel Clara Thomas Jane Widdicombe Lee Associate Editor Jean O’Grady Editors Joseph Adamson Robert D. DeGroote family.Įditorial Committee General Editor Alvin A. The Northrop Frye Centre gratefully acknowledges financial support, through McMaster University, from the Michael G. The purpose of the edition is to make available authoritative texts of both published and unpublished works, based on an analysis and comparison of all available materials, and supported by scholarly apparatus, including annotation and introductions. The Collected Edition of the Works of Northrop Frye has been planned and is being directed by an editorial committee under the aegis of Victoria University, through its Northrop Frye Centre. Words with Power: Being a Second Study of “The Bible and Literature” Collected Works of Northrop Frye VO LUM E 2 6
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