Northrop Frye's Writings on Education (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (768 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802048277 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 752 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Goldwin French is President Emeritus, Victoria University.Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his dea
William S Jamison said the life of Frye and a bit of history. Odd to ask what the plot of this book consists of since there is only the narrative framework of his collected writings as he studied, taught, administered, remembered, cajoled, and led in his various capacities as student, teacher, principal, chancellor, and guest speaker. So the pieces
Frye's consistent affirmation that the goal of a liberal education is to make one maladjusted may give some hint as to the richness and variety of the writings collected here.Among the range of subjects that Frye addresses are teaching (from kindergarten to university), literary studies, the nature of the university, student radicalism, educational policy and procedure, and particular occasions in the life of Victoria University. It traces Frye's thinking about education from his student days through the campus unrest of the 1960s and the more recent budgetary crises facing higher education in Canada. Each provides part of the introduction: the first placing the works in the context of Frye's biography and
About the AuthorGoldwin French is President Emeritus, Victoria University.Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria College, University of Toronto.. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death