Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature : Vol. 29

This volume brings together Northrop Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, a body of work produced over almost sixty years. Including Frye's incisive book, T.S. Eliot , as well as his discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell, the volume also contains a recently discovered review of C.G. Jung's book on the synchronicity principle and a previously unpublished introduction to a twentieth-century literature anthology. Frye's insightful commentaries demonstrate definitively that he was as astute a critic of the literature of his own time as he was of the literature of earlier periods. Glen Robert Gill's substantial introduction delineates the development of Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, puts it in historical and cultural context, and relates it to his overarching theory of literature. This volume in Frye's Collected Works is indispensible not only for readers of Frye's work but for all scholars and students of twentieth-century literature. Contents 7 Preface 13 Credits 17 Abbreviations 19 Introduction 23 1. Press Cuttings 59 2. Delicate Rhythms 63 3. Experiment 65 4. Poetry (I) 67 5. Poetry (II) 69 6. Henry Wells 72 7. Irene Moody 74 8. Poetry (III) 76 9. New Directions (I) 79 10. Review of New Writing and Daylight (I) 83 11. Review of Voices and Genesis 85 12. Review of New Writing and Daylight (II) 90 13. Joseph Schull 92 14. New Directions (II) 94 15. Karl Shapiro 97 16. Kenneth Rexroth 99 17. Idols of the Marketplace 102 18. A.E. Coppard and T.F. Powys 104 19. George Orwell, Animal Farm 105 20. Review of New Writing and Daylight (III) 108 21. Review of The Kafka Problem 110 22. Henry James, Roderick Hudson 111 23. Yeats and the Language of Symbolism 112 24. The Betjeman Brand 132 25. Edith Sitwell, The Shadow of Cain 135 26. For Tory and Leftist 136 27. Virginia Woolf 138 28. Four Short Reviews 140 29. Ezra Pound 142 30. George Orwell 144 31. Novels on Several Occasions 146 32. Phalanx of Particulars 157 33. Quest and Cycle in Finnegans Wake 163 34. Graves, Gods, and Scholars 172 35. Nature and the Psyche 178 36. Poetry of the Tout Ensemble 182 37. The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens 187 38. Religion and Modern Poetry 205 39. The Nightmare Life in Death 217 40. Comment 226 41. T.S. Eliot 237 42. Tribute to John Crowe Ransom 309 43. The Rising of the Moon: A Study of A Vision 310 44. Foreword to 1984 336 45. The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats 341 46. Draft Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature 362 47. Wallace Stevens and the Variation Form 366 48. Aldous Huxley 383 49. Rolls Royce 386 50. Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake 390 51. Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult 408 Notes 429 Emendations 475 Index 477 "This volume brings together Northrop Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, a body of work produced over almost sixty years. Including Frye's incisive book on T.S. Eliot, as well as his discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell, the volume also contains a recently discovered review of C.G. Jung's book on the synchronicity principle and a previously unpublished introduction to an anthology of twentieth-century literature. Frye's insightful commentaries demonstrate that he was as astute a critic of the literature of his own time as he was of the literature of earlier periods." "Glen Robert Gill's introduction delineates the development of Frye's criticism on twentieth-century literature, puts it in historical and cultural context, and relates it to his overarching theory of literature. This definitive volume in the Collected Works will be a welcome addition to the libraries of Frye specialists and of scholars and students of twentieth-century literature in general."--BOOK JACKET