The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Dr. Edgar's Book -- 2 Art Does Need Sociability -- 3 Music in Poetry -- 4 The Anatomy in Prose Fiction -- 5 The Nature of Satire -- 6 Nichols and Kirkup's The Cosmic Shape -- 7 R.F. Patterson's The Story of English Literature -- 8 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -- 9 The Four Forms of Prose Fiction -- 10 Levels of Meaning in Literature -- 11 A Conspectus of Dramatic Genres -- 12 The Archetypes of Literature -- 13 Three Meanings of Symbolism -- 14 The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes -- 15 Towards a Theory of Cultural History -- 16 Art in a New Modulation -- 17 Ministry of Angels -- 18 Critics and Criticism -- 19 Myth as Information -- 20 Content with the Form -- 21 Forming Fours -- 22 The Language of Poetry -- 23 The Transferability of Literary Concepts -- 24 An Indispensable Book -- 25 "Preface" and "Introduction: Lexis and Melos" -- 26 The Ulysses Theme and Tragic Themes in Western Literature -- 27 Nature and Homer -- 28 Sir James Frazer -- 29 Interior Monologue of M. Teste -- 30 World Enough without Time -- 31 Literature as Possession -- 32 New Directions from Old -- 33 The Well-Tempered Critic (I) -- 34 The Well-Tempered Critic (II) -- 35 Myth, Fiction, and Displacement -- 36 The Imaginative and the Imaginary -- 37 The Educated Imagination -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame thatFearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.

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