Northrop Frye's The Secular Scripture was first published in
1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works,
reflecting an extensive development of Frye's thoughts about
romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works
of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with
thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism
from the last fifteen years of Frye's life.
Frye's study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human
significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a
unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how
romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional
features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and
deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In
distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they
are both ultimately two aspects of the same "human compulsion to
create in the face of chaos." The additional late writings reflect
Frye's sense at the time that he was working "toward some kind of
final statement," which eventually saw the light of day, only
months before his death, as Words with Power (1990).
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