The Myth of Delicerance

'The Myth of Deliverance displays Frye's own constructive desire. He idealized and harmonizes individual works or literature to clarify their place within, as they establish the nature of, the poetics of comedy that is his subject. He has always been vulnerable to a charge that he is insensitive to the particularities of specific texts... none the less, if the book demonstrates Frye's greater loyalty to the myth rather than to the various illustrations of it, it reveals the power of his visionary understanding of literature.' Times literary supplement

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