Northrop Frye on Myth

• Author(s): Ford Russell,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 245
• ISBN_10: 0415929059
  ISBN_13: 9780415929059
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology , Religion / General , Social Science / Folklore & Mythology ,

Description:... Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.