Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications

by Northrop Frye and L. C. Knights

Book Overview

Thirteen of the essays in this volume were selected from sixty-one papers delivered at the 1962 joint meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association and the Central Renaissance Conference. Two essays, "The Road of Excess" by Northrop Frye and "King Lear as Metaphor" by L. C. Knights, were originally presented as major lectures during the conference, whose central theme was criticism in relation to myth and symbol. Edited with a foreword...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803250657
• ISBN13: 9780803250659
• Release Date: April 1963
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"