The educated imaginationAddressed 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. Dr. Frye's proposals for the teaching of literature include an early emphasis on poetry, the "central and original literary form," intensive study of the Bible, as literature, and the Greek and Latin classics, as these embody all the great enduring themes of western man, and study of the great literary forms: tragedy and comedy, romance and irony. |
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When you see a play of Shakespeare's, you know that there never were any such
people as Hamlet or Fal- staff. There may once have been a prince in Denmark
named Amleth, or there may have been somebody called Sir John Fastolf — in ...
When you see a play of Shakespeare's, you know that there never were any such
people as Hamlet or Fal- staff. There may once have been a prince in Denmark
named Amleth, or there may have been somebody called Sir John Fastolf — in ...
Pagina 95
Without a constructive power in the mind to make models of experience, get
hunches and follow them out, play freely around with hypotheses, and so forth,
no scientist could get anywhere. But all imaginative effort in practical fields has to
meet ...
Without a constructive power in the mind to make models of experience, get
hunches and follow them out, play freely around with hypotheses, and so forth,
no scientist could get anywhere. But all imaginative effort in practical fields has to
meet ...
Pagina 98
That's part of a play, and a play is supposed to be entertaining. Now in what
sense can a scene like that be entertaining? The fact that it's not really happening
is certainly important. It would be degrading to watch a real blinding scene, and
far ...
That's part of a play, and a play is supposed to be entertaining. Now in what
sense can a scene like that be entertaining? The fact that it's not really happening
is certainly important. It would be degrading to watch a real blinding scene, and
far ...
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