The 'Third Book' Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964-1972: The Critical Comedy
In the early 1960s, Northrop Frye began keeping notebooks with the aim of creating a critical epic that he referred to as the ''Third Book'', a project intended as his third major work following Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism. As described by Michael Dolzani, Frye''s ambition for the ''Third Book'' was for it to become no less than a "symbolic guide to the entire universe". The work h...
In the early 1960s, Northrop Frye began keeping notebooks with the aim of creating a critical epic that he referred to as the ''Third Book'', a project intended as his third major work following Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism. As described by Michael Dolzani, Frye''s ambition for the ''Third Book'' was for it to become no less than a "symbolic guide to the entire universe". The work h...
