Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of MythIn Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth, Glen Robert Gill compares Frye's theories about myth to those of three other major twentieth-century mythologists: C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Mircea Eliade. Gill explores the theories of these respective thinkers as they relate to Frye's discussions of the phenomenological nature of myth, as well as its religious, literary, and psychological significance. Gill substantiates Frye's work as both more radical and more tenable than that of his three contemporaries. Eliade's writings are shown to have a metaphysical basis that abrogates an understanding of myth as truly phenomenological, while Jung's theory of the collective unconscious emerges as similarly problematic. Likewise, Gill argues, Campbell's work, while incorporating some phenomenological progressions, settles on a questionable metaphysical foundation. Gill shows how, in contrast to these other mythologists, Frye's theory of myth - first articulated in Fearful Symmetry (1947) and culminating in Words with Power (1990) - is genuinely phenomenological. With excursions into fields such as literary theory, depth psychology, theology, and anthropology, Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth is essential to the understanding of Frye's important mythological work. |
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Glen Robert Gill. and objects achieving a unity . In Fearful Symmetry , Northrop Frye presents Blake's poetics as a renovation of human consciousness that ... Fearful Symmetry ( 1962 ) Cleansing the Doors of Perception : Fearful Symmetry 103.
... Fearful Symmetry's ability to establish and maintain these identifications , to speak in several voices about several bodies of writing in several modes of discourse , as a striking demonstration of the tenability ... Fearful Symmetry 105.
... Fearful Symmetry 1 It is worth noting , and consistent with Baker's observation , that Fearful Symmetry is divided into 12 parts , like the classical epic . Frye's original in- tention , however , seems to have been that Fearful ...
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The Platonic Patterns of Mircea Eliade | 21 |
C G Jung and the Archetypes of | 45 |
Joseph Campbell and | 73 |
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