The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975

Description

1. Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism -- 2. Literary Criticism -- 3. Myth and Poetry -- 4. Preface to Bachelard's The Psychoanalysis of Fire -- 5. After the Invocation, a Lapse into Litany -- 6. Criticism, Visible and Invisible -- 7. Structure and Spirit of Comedy -- 8. Norms of Satire -- 9. Allegory -- 10. Verse and Prose -- 11. Varieties of Literary Utopias -- 12. Letter to the English Institute, 1965 -- 13. Reflections in a Mirror -- 14. Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts -- 15. Literature and Myth -- 16. Welcoming Remarks to Conference on Editorial Problems, 1967 -- 17. On Value Judgments -- 18. Literature and Society -- 19. Mythos and Logos -- 20. Myth of Light -- 21. Old and New Comedy -- 22. Sign and Significance -- 23. Literature and the Law -- 24. Search for Acceptable Words -- 25. Times of the Signs -- 26. Rhythms of Time -- 27. Charms and Riddles -- 28. Expanding Eyes.;This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971).