Description: Further DetailsTitle: Creation and RecreationCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0802064221EAN: 9780802064226ISBN: 9780802064226Publisher: University of Toronto PressRelease Date: 08/01/1980Description: 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 disturbs our sense of 'the' creation, a reversing or neutralizing of it. What seems to be one of the few admirable forms of human achievement, the creation of the arts, turns out to be a kind of 'decreation.' The imagery of creation lies at the heart of every mythology and every development of the arts, though Professor Frye distinguishes between the stories of creation that look up to heaven and those that look down to earth. To these he contrasts human creativity, which is projected on the future, and recorded in various forms of the arts ranging from pastoral poetry to architecture. It is this counter-movement of creation set up by man, as reflected particularly in literature, that he calls 'recreation.' Originally delivered as the 1980 Larkin-Stuart Lectures, this book provides an intriguing and provocative insight into the notion of creation and of the relationship in creativity between the human and the divine.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CAItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 5mmItem Weight: 120gAuthor: Northrop FryeGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: HeritageType: LinguisticsRelease Year: 1980 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Creation and Recreation
Title: Creation and Recreation
ISBN-10: 0802064221
EAN: 9780802064226
ISBN: 9780802064226
Release Date: 08/01/1980
Release Year: 1980
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 76 Pages
Publication Name: Creation and Recreation
Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Christian Theology / Anthropology, Linguistics / Semantics, Creative Ability, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 1980
Item Height: 0.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4.2 Oz
Author: Northrop Frye
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Heritage Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
