In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.

【作者簡介】

諾思羅普·弗萊（Northrop Frye ，1912—1991）

加拿大文學理論界代錶人物，原型批評創始人。真正把文學批評當作一門獨立的學科，對其自身進行比較係統的探討，是從弗萊的《批評的解剖》開始的。另著有《世俗的經典》《神力的語言》等30餘部著作。

弗萊是加拿大文學領域的傑齣代錶，1951年入選加拿大皇傢學會，1967年任多倫多大學教授，曾獲加拿大勛章、加拿大總督文學奬、多倫多文科終身成就奬等眾多奬項。2000年，加拿大政府為紀念弗萊，發行瞭弗萊主題郵票並設立瞭諾思羅普·弗萊國際藝術節。

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【譯者簡介】

李雪菲，北京大學法語係學士學位，巴黎索邦大學文學碩士在讀。