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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... belong to one big interlocking family . You can see how true this is if you think of such words as tragedy or comedy or satire or romance : cer- tain typical ways in which stories get told . You 48 The Educated Imagination.
... romance and irony . In romance we have a simplified and ideal- ized world , of brave 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 ...
Northrop Frye. edy or romance . Tragedy and irony are more difficult , and ought to be reserved , I think , for the secondary- school level . Romance develops out of the story of the hero's ad- ventures which the student has already met ...