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"Carter's music poses struggles of opposition, for instance in timbre (Double Concerto), space (String Quartet No. 3) or pulse (String Quartet No. 5). His preference for the all-interval tetrachords, 4–Z15 [0, 1, 4, 6] and 4–Z29 [0, 1, 3,... more
Illustrious is the roll of those who have made prescriptions and predictions declaring that poetry has had its day. Plato wanted to keep poets out of his ideal republic. Love Peacock, Shelley's friend, thought poetry has little place in... more
Excerto de minha tradução da obra seminal do crítico canadense Northrop Frye disponibilizado pela editora em seu site. Para adquiri-la, acesse: http://www.erealizacoes.com.br/produto/anatomia-da-critica---quatro-ensaios
Neste trabalho reuni as informações que achei mais importantes durante a leitura da obra de Frye. Esse material é destinado para aqueles que procuram apoio para a leitura da obra integral.
John Donne thought it a wild extension of the imagination when he wrote, in his "Valediction: of the Booke" that "in the Bible some can finde out Alchimy." But many authors attempted it during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This paper... more
Although Frye and Bachtin seem to ignore each other's writings, there is more than one evidence that their thinking and ideas about literature can be compared and partially superposed. Focusing on Anatomy of Criticism this paper stresses... more
This paper examines Jung’s rebirth archetype in two popular fairy tales, focusing on how it is described, how it specifically functions within the narratives, and on underlying mythopoeic imagery from which the narratives are constructed.... more
This paper examines archetypal, initiatory symbolism in interconnected Biblical narratives, the Old Testament story of Jonah and the Fish (or Whale) and the apocryphal story known as the Harrowing of Hell, a metaphorical relationship... more
I integrate evolutionary biology with ideas from the traditional humanist paradigm; critique poststructuralism and construct a biocultural alternative; critique many individual theorists (with the most extensive attention given to... more
Este artigo procura ofertar uma reflexão crítica sobre o conjunto de textos escritos pelo poeta anglo-americano Wystan Hugh Auden referentes à obra de J.R.R. Tolkien, tentando precisar suas linhas de força. Dentre estas, nosso foco... more
Studi sul Boccaccio 42 (2014): 143-62
In Middle-earth, even evil suffers a steady decline from the cosmic to the petty over the course of “the long defeat” of Arda. In this paper I will use terms from Northrop Frye’s The Great Code—metaphoric, metonymic, demotic, and... more
This book, concentrating on the works of one of the most outstanding literary critics of the 20th-century, serves three main purposes, as reflected in the three parts of the study. The first is to examine Northrop Frye's mental... more
Notes from Northrop Frye´s seminal volume in archetypal/anthropological criticism, "Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957. Rpt. 1971. 383 p). Notes taken by J. A. García Landa c. 1985, edited with... more
This paper explores the interface between the media ecological theories of Marshall McLuhan and the Indian philosophical system known as Pratyabhijñā (recognition). It is argued that our contemporary media environment composed of digital... more
Published in Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels: The Gospel of Matthew (ed. Thomas R. Hatina; Library of New Testament Studies 310; London: T. & T. Clark, 2008) 98-118. In this contribution I aim to explain why, in... more
Few theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye’s essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but... more
Komparatistička studija o odnosu teorije književnosti i filma u području klasificiranja umjetničkih djela.
Književna smotra, br. 143, 2007
Književna smotra, br. 143, 2007
Από τους τέσσερεις-πέντε αρχετυπικούς μυθικούς κύκλους, που εμπνέουν διαχρονικά την ποιητική φαντασία των λαών σύμφωνα με τις τυπολογίες των ειδικών (Μπόρχες, Νόρθροπ Φράι), τρείς τουλάχιστον έχουν βαθιές ρίζες στην αρχαία ελληνική... more
But the course ‘literary criticism’, the reason why I am writing this piece, was unsatisfactory and the contents only kept us ‘outmoded’. We had Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, Arnold’s ‘The Study of Poetry’, Wordsworth’s... more
This paper is the introductory section of an essay meant to rethink the theoretical principles of contemporary realist practice in several modes of expression (literature, cinema, video, the graphic arts).
The critics reference formalist/structuralist methods of criticism in today’s literary arena more and more with each passing day, especially in academic publication environments at contemporary literary products as well as Classic... more
This essay studies the literary genre(s) of Middlemarch by applying to it Northrop Frye’s theory of the four basic forms of prose fiction. Its main contention is that the work is not a pure novel but rather a blend of the novel and the... more
This article examines the history of interpretation of Hagar's story in Genesis 16 within debates over slavery through the narrative frame of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character Mr Wilson echoes the hermeneutics... more
Klişeler edebiyat açısından pek çok noktada sanıldığının aksine işlevsel, yararlı, estetik, tarihî, semptomatik ya da yapısal önemde olabilir.
This article draws together overlapping cognitive analyses of political thought, emotion, and language and shows how they can be supplemented with literary analyses of genre to illuminate the workings of the French Revolution debate of... more
The full text is available here http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/article/view/4648 ""Controversy has surrounded The Merchant of Venice. Although some critics believe the play is not anti-Semitic, the present study shows that Shakespeare... more
Tedesco di origine ebraica nato a Berlino nel 1892, Erich Auerbach scrisse il suo capolavoro, Mimesis, negli anni tragici della seconda guerra mondiale, dall’esilio di Istanbul, dove aveva fortunosamente trovato rifugio con la famiglia... more