Frye's brief analysis herein of Blake's "The Sick Rose" (which he
relates to Eve and the serpent) is very good. This, however, is not
a book for poets or writers, but for readers, and rather sheep-like
ones at that. Frye takes what might be called a technological view
of literature and speaks of such less-than-exhilarating things as
the transfer of energy from literature to the reader's imagination.
Despite his urbanity, his attempt to reveal the profound
functionalism of the literary imagination will appeal mainly to
functionalists, those people who study logical positivism to
understand man's relation to the stars. However some mysteries
function more beautifully as mysteries. The best of Frye's essay
concerns the myths upon which all literature is essentially based.
There is, he says, one myth which includes all myths. It is not
Graves' White Goddess (mother, mistress, muse and all-devouring
witch); it is the Fall from Paradise and for this point he makes a
good case. (Kirkus Reviews)
Addressed to educators and general readers the "consumers of
literature" from all walks of life this important new book explores
the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in
addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of
literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an
early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and
kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature.
Dr. Frye's proposals for the teaching of literature include an
early emphasis on poetry, the "central and original literary form,"
intensive study of the Bible, as literature, and the Greek and
Latin classics, as these embody all the great enduring themes of
western man, and study of the great literary forms: tragedy and
comedy, romance and irony."
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