“For the past 25 years I have been teaching and studying English literature in a university. As with in any other job, certain questions stick in one’s mind, not because people keep asking them, but because they’re the questions inspired by the very fact of being in such a place. What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” (p. 13) The Educated Imagination collects Northrop Frye’s answers to those questions. He delivered six half-hour radio talks for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the early 1960s. In 1964, these lectures were collected and published by the Indiana University Press in 1964. They still have a lot to recommend them today. GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The Motive for Metaphor 11
2. The Singing School 35
3. Giants in Time 59
4. The Keys to Dreamland 83
5. Verticals of Adam 107
6. The Vocation of Eloquence 131
Now two posts in a day! Things are crazy at georgekelley.org. This is another not-my-thing book.
Rick, I’m a big fan of Northrop Frye. These lectures are aimed at the general public and make some great points about literature and education.
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