NORTHROP FRYE AND AMERICAN FICTION by Claude Le Fustec ( 9781442647695 )

Item Details

Title:

NORTHROP FRYE AND AMERICAN FICTION

By:

Claude Le Fustec

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£47.00

Our price:

£42.30

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£4.70

ISBN 10:

1442647698

ISBN 13:

9781442647695

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Pub. date:

7 January, 2015

Series:

Frye Studies

Pages:

248

Description:

Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison.

Synopsis:

Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye's theorizing on the connections between the Bible and the development of Western literature, Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison. Examining these novels through the lens of Frye's ambitious account of literature's transcendent, or kerygmatic power, Le Fustec argues that American fiction has always contained the seeds of a rejection of radical skepticism and a return to spiritual experience. Beyond an insightful analysis of Frye's ideas, Northrop Frye and American Fiction is powerful testimony of their continued interpretive potential.

Illustrations:

2 figures

Publication:

Canada

Imprint:

University of Toronto Press

Returns:

Returnable