Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life.(Brief Article)

World Literature Today | September 22, 1994| | Copyright

Limited by its fifty-four pages of text, Joseph Adamson's lengthy essay on Northrop Frye succeeds neither as biography nor as criticism. People and events exist in the work solely to hint at their role in Frye's intellectual development, and Adamson's treatment of them adds little to his simple listings in his "Chronology." At the same time, despite Adamson's obvious familiarity with the vast body of material that has already developed around Frye's contributions to literary criticism and theory, he has not space enough to develop his own perceptions about Frye's work. He ...

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