In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works ...
In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.
想象的世界充满了尚未出生或仍处于胚胎状态的信仰：如果你相信在文学中读到的事情，你实际上可以相信任何事情。
你可能会问道，既然在想象的世界中一切皆有可能，一切都可以被设想，不存在对错之分，并且任何论点都具有同等的合理性，那么，学习想象的世界有什么用处呢？我认为，最明显的用处之一就是培养宽容。在想象中，我们的个人信仰不过是可能性，但是我们也能够在他人的信仰中看到可能性。顽固者和狂热分子很少使用艺术，因为他们过于关切自己的信仰和行为，而不能够将它们当作一种可能性来看待。我们也可能走向另一个极端，成为一个困惑于各种可能性的一知半解者，以至缺乏行动的信念或力量。但是，和顽固者相比，这样的人更为少见，对我们的世界造成的危险也更小。
想象中的抽离力量（ power of detachment）产生了宽容，在此，任何事件都被移除到信仰和行为的范围之外。经验几乎总是普通的；当下不像过去那样具有怀旧的浪漫，在现实生活中，理想和愿景会变得航脏不堪。文学则反置了这一过程。 (查看原文)
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0 有用 道之 2013-09-25 22:51:13
the function of criticism at the present time，思想承袭Arnold，连文章名字都一模一样，是致敬么。
0 有用 道之 2013-09-25 22:51:13
the function of criticism at the present time，思想承袭Arnold，连文章名字都一模一样，是致敬么。