The Educated ImaginationIndiana University Press, 22 gen 1964 - 160 pagine Addressed to educators and general readers—the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life—this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. |
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... hero , much larger than life . Achilles is more than what any man could be , because he's also what a man wishes he could be , and he does what most men would do if they were strong enough . He's not a portrait of an individual hero ...
... heroes , pure and beautiful hero- ines , and very bad villains . All forms of irony , includ- ing satire , stress the complexity of human life in op- position to this simple world . Of these four forms , comedy and romance are the ...
... hero's ad- ventures which the student has already met in myth , and comedy out of the episode of the hero's triumph or marriage . It's important to get the habit of standing back and looking at the total structure of every literary work ...