Creation and Recreation

by Northrop Frye

Book Overview

Here Professor Frye analyses the way in which the structure and imagery of literature have been affected by the complex of ideas and images surrounding the word 'creation.' Traditionally, everything associated with nature, reality, settled order, the way things are, is supposed to go back to the creation, the original divine act of making the world. If the word 'creative' is applied to human activities, the humanly creative is whatever profoundly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802064221
• ISBN13: 9780802064226
• Release Date: August 1980
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher