Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Credits and Sources xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction xxi
7. 1 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance 1
8. 2 Romance as Masque 125
9. 3 Letter to the Editor of Parabola 152
10. 4 The Responsibilities of the Critic 153
11. 5 Comment on Peter Hughes’s Essay 170
12. 6 Literature, History, and Language 172
13. 7 On Translation 180
14. 8 Extracts from The Practical Imagination: Stories, Poems, Plays 182
15. 9 Vision and Cosmos 213
16. 10 Literature as a Critique of Pure Reason 230
17. 11 Approaching the Lyric 245
18. 12 The Survival of Eros in Poetry 252
19. 13 The Ouroboros 287
20. 14 Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate World 290
21. 15 The End of History 299
22. 16 Myth as the Matrix of Literature 300
23. 17 The Koiné of Myth: Myth as a Universally Intelligible Language 312
24. 18 The Symbol as a Medium of Exchange 327
25. 19 The Expanding World of Metaphor 342
26. 20 Extracts from The Harper Handbook to Literature 357
27. 21 Letter to the Editor of PMLA 390
28. 22 Lacan and the Full Word 392
29. 23 Literature and the Visual Arts 396
30. 24 The Journey as Metaphor 408
31. 25 Framework and Assumption 423
32. 26 Maps and Territories 436
33. 27 Epilogo 442
34. 28 Auguries of Experience 444
35. 29 Literary and Mechanical Models 451
36. 30 Literature as Therapy 463
37. 31 Response to Papers on “Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature” 477
38. Notes 485
39. Emendations 535
40. Index 537