The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination

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House of Anansi, 1995 - Literary Collections - 259 pages
"Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive new edition of Frye's timeless essays on literature and painting features an introduction by Canadian literature scholar Linda Hutcheon."
 

Contents

Canada and Its Poetry
131
The Narrative Tradition in EnglishCanadian Poetry
147
Preface to an Uncollected Anthology
165
Silence in the Sea
183
Canadian and Colonial Painting
201
Conclusion to a Literary History of Canada
215
Selected Index
255
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About the author (1995)

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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