New Releases by Northrop Frye

"Papers read at the formal inauguration, on October 27, 1966, of the Society for the Humanities." The knowledge of good and evil, by N. Frye.--Commitment and imagination, by S. Hampshire.--Politics and the morality of scholarship, by C. Cruise O''Brien.

The resources of an exceptional mind are brought to bear on questions of prime importance in modern life in this brief and penetrating book by one of North America''s leading scholars and thinkers. Northrop Frye presents a brilliant array of ideas and observations on the mythology of our day and its central elements, alienation and progress; the effects of technology on the structure of society; characteristics commonly associated with "modern"; anti-social attitudes in modern culture; the role of the arts in forming the contemporary imagination; and finally, the way in which the creative arts are absorbed into society through education. Everyone concerned with the sates of mind and quality of life distinctive to the modern world -- "where power and success express themselves to much in stentorian lying, hypnotized leadership, and panic-stricken suppression of freedom and criticism" -- will be grateful for this lucid, sane, and original discussion. -- Publisher.

In this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism.

Hundreds were turned away from these lectures given on the day of the installation of Dr. Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto. Professor Frye spoke on "Humanities in a New World"; Professor Kluckhohn on "The Scientific Study of Values"; and Professor V.B. Wigglesworth on "Science: Pure and Applied".