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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S The Great Code The Bible and Literature Northrop Frye Edited by Alvin A. Lee COLLECTED WORKS OF NORTHROP FRYE, VOLUME 19 Considered by many to be Northrop Frye’s magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible. In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin A. Lee presents a corrected and fully annotated version of Frye’s text, as well as a comprehensive introduction to help contextualize this important work and guide readers through its allusive passages. Lee’s introduction provides a synoptic account of the role of the Bible in Frye’s intellectual and spiritual odyssey, as well as a description of how The Great Code as a book came into existence, and an introductory critique of the shape and meaning of the book’s argument. The Great Code is culturally allusive to a high degree. It takes much of its inspiration from the Bible itself, including a profusion of biblical passages, but also from the author’s extensive reading of a host of other texts from ancient times until the late twentieth century. Lee’s extensive annotation illustrates, beyond question, that Frye’s knowledge of the Bible and how it has worked in Western culture was at once profound and visionary. This new edition not only re-presents Frye’s text in a clear, correct, and fully annotated form, it goes a long way in helping us understand the widespread scholarly and popular reception that met this extraordinary and in some ways revolutionary book and how it can still be richly rewarding for readers. Alvin A. Lee is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at McMaster University, a research associate at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and general editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Renaissance Literature Edited by Michael Dolzani COLLECTED WORKS OF NORTHROP FRYE, VOLUME 20 Although Northrop Frye’s first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of the Romantic period, but of the Renaissance. As such, Frye’s meditations on the Renaissance are particularly valuable. This volume collects six of Frye’s notebooks and five sets of his typed notes on subjects related to Renaissance literature. Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masque; and those on lyric poetry and non-fiction prose. The organization of this volume reflects ‘a comprehensive study of Renaissance Symbolism’ in three volumes, which Frye proposed to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1949. Frye received a Guggenheim fellowship, but never wrote the book; nevertheless, his application, part of which is also included here, is an important document. The Guggenheim application not only reveals the outlines of Frye’s thinking about literature, it also uncovers his plans for his future creative life during the crucial period between his completion of Fearful Symmetry and his absorption in the writing of Anatomy of Criticism. In addition to providing insight into Frye’s thinking process, the material collected into this key volume in the Collected Works is of particular importance because much of it has no direct counterpart in any of Frye’s other published works. Michael Dolzani is a professor in the Department of English at Baldwin Wallace College. Approx. 464 pp / 6 x 9 / July 2006 1 illustration Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9120-2 / 978-08020-9120-8 £65.00 $100.00 E Approx. 608 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9179-2 / 978-0-8020-9179-6 £65.00 $100.00 E 32
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933–1963 Northrop Frye Edited by Germaine Warkentin COLLECTED WORKS OF NORTHROP FRYE, VOLUME 21 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 shape The 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. Germaine Warkentin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. Approx. 768 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 6 photographs Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9209-8 / 978-0-8020-9209-0 £80.00 $125.00 E RECENT TITLES IN THE COLLECTED WORKS OF NORTHROP FRYE The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991 Volume 18 Edited by Joseph Adamson and Jean Wilson 0-8020-3945-6 / 978-0-8020-3945-3 £65.00 / $100.00 / 2006 Northrop Frye’s Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Volume 17 Edited by Imre Salusinszky 0-8020-3824-7 / 978-0-8020-3824-1 £55.00 / $85.00 / 2005 Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake Volume 16 Edited by Angela Esterhammer 0-8020-3919-7 / 978-0-8020-3919-4 £55.00 / $85.00 / 2005 Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance Volume 15 Edited by Michael Dolzani 0-8020-3947-2 / 978-0-8020-3947-7 £60.00 / $95.00 / 2004 Fearful Symmetry A Study of William Blake Volume 14 Edited by Nicholas Halmi 0-8020-8983-6 / 978-0-8020-8983-0 £60.00 / $95.00 / 2004 33
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