Northrop Frye on Canada

Northrop Frye is conceivably Canada’s most celebrated literary theorist, but his role in the country’s cultural evolution has perhaps been overlooked by later Canadian scholars in favour of his better-known literary criticism. This collection is part of a series that brings together all of the writings of Northrop Frye, both published and unpublished before this work, on the subject of Canadian literature and culture. From his early book reviews of the 1930s and 1940s through his explorations of the patterns of Canadian literature in the 1950s, to his cultural commentaries of the sixties, seventies and eighties (including all his essays from The Bush Garden and Divisions on a Ground ), the volume is a testimony to Frye’s popularity as an astute critic of his country’s literature and a vital participant in its cultural evolution. All of Frye’s writings on Canadian literature and culture - essays, articles, reviews and speeches - are published in their entirety and are accompanied by a detailed introduction and contextual head-notes to each piece.