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Divisions on a ground:

essays on Canadian culture
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House of Anansi, 1982 - Literary Collections - 199 pages

Perhaps the most influential critical thinker of our time, Northrop Frye has long commented upon the cultural life of his own country.The Bush Gardenis now a standard work on Canadian writing and painting, andDivisions on a Groundcontinues Frye's extraordinary enquiry into Canada's literature, universities, social assumptions, and national character.

In 13 essays and addresses, Fry covers a broad range of subject matter, from future shock to the meaning of Canada's history; from student politics to the idea of the university; from regional verse to Marshall McLuhan and the age of television.Provocative, splendidly written and quite entertaining,Divisions on a Groundshows Northrop Frye at his most accessible: a book of prime importance for every North American.

  

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Contents

Editors Preface by James Polk
9
Culture as Interpenetration
15
Across the River and Out of the Trees
26
National Consciousness in Canadian Culture
41
Sharing the Continent
57
Conclusion to Literary History of Canada
71
Teaching
91
Humanities in a New World
102
The Writer and the University
118
The Teachers Source of Authority
125
The Definition of a University
139
The Ethics of Change
156
New World Without Revolution
167
Notes Toward A Future
181
Acknowledgements
191
Copyright

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About the author (1982)

Herman Northrop Frye was born in 1912 in Quebec, Canada. His mother educated him at home until the fourth grade. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he studied theology at Emmanuel College for several years and actually worked as a pastor before deciding he preferred the academic life. He eventually obtained his master's degree from Oxford, and taught English at the University of Toronto for more than four decades. Frye's first two books, Fearful Symmetry (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism (1957) set forth the influential literary principles upon which he continued to elaborate in his numerous later works. These include Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, The Well-Tempered Critic, and The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Frye died in 1991.

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TitleDivisions on a ground: essays on Canadian culture
AuthorFrye, Northrop
EditorPolk, James
Photographs byPolk, James
ContributorPolk, James
PublisherHouse of Anansi, 1982
ISBN0887840930, 9780887840937
Length199 pages
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