Resultado da Busca
25 de mar. de 2021 · English. viii, 199 pages ; 22 cm. Reassesses the tradition and individual works of Western romance, from ancient Greece to the present, as constituting an imaginative universe in which man, moving between the idyllic and demonic, functions as a scriptural hero. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Romance as a whole is thus seen as forming an integrated vision of the world, a “secular scripture” whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God. The clarity of Northrop Frye’s perception, the scope and suggestiveness of his conceptualizing, the wit and grace of his style, have won him universal admiration.
Pages. 200. ISBN. 978-0674796768. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance is a collection of essays by the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye. The collection was originally published in 1976.
- Northrop Frye
- 1973
degree) do secular tales, possessing the same sort of structure, get attached to each other to form complete bodies of literature. The distinction between the two genres has much less to do with structure than with authoritativeness and social function; it overlaps a good deal (but not totally) with the distinction between the sacred and the ...
The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance. Northrop Frye. Harvard University Press, 1976 - Bibles - 199 pages. Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on...
- Northrop Frye
- 0674796764, 9780674796768
- reprint, revised
- Harvard University Press, 1976
1 de jan. de 1978 · Secular Scripture is an in-depth application of the theories presented in Anatomy of Criticism to one particular branch of literature: romance. As such, it relies more upon concrete examples than upon abstract reason, and is much easier to understand.
- Northrop Frye
Compre online The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance: 34, de Frye, Northrop na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Frye, Northrop com ótimos preços.
