Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction Incorporating Legacies: Decolonizing the Garrison 3
5. Part I. The Confluence of the Mythopoeic and the Thematic: Frye and Canada
6. 1.1 The Canadian Poet’s Predicament 31
7. 1.2 ‘This Northern Mouth’: Ideas of Myth and Regionalism in Modern Canadian Poetry 44
8. 1.3 Myth, Frye, and Canadian Writers 61
9. 1.4 Northrop Frye: Canadian Mythographer 79
10. 1.5 Frye in Place 93
11. Part II. Frye’s Influence on the Canadian Literary and Critical Imagination: Challenging the Legacy
12. 2.1 Why James Reaney Is a Better Poet (1) than any Northrop Frye poet (2) than he used to be 111
13. 2.2 Butterfly in the Bush Garden: ‘Mythopoeic’ Criticism of Contemporary Poetry Written in Canada 122
14. 2.3 Surviving the Paraphrase 133
15. 2.4 Mandatory Subversive Manifesto: Canadian Criticism versus Literary Criticism 144
16. 2.5 Bushed in the Sacred Wood 155
17. Part III. Frye’s Canadian Criticism and the Making of Canadian Literary and Critical Culture
18. 3.1 Northrop Frye and the Canadian Literary Tradition 171
19. 3.2 Retrieving the Canadian Critical Tradition as Poetry: Eli Mandel and Northrop Frye 184
20. 3.3 Against Monism: The Canadian Anatomy of Northrop Frye 203
21. 3.4 Reading for Contradiction in the Literature of Colonial Space 216
22. 3.5 Frye Recoded: Postmodernity and the Conclusions 233
23. 3.6 Frye: Canadian Critic/Writer 251
24. 3.7 ‘A Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom’: The Narrative in Northrop Frye’s ‘Conclusion’ to the Literary History of Canada 260
25. Epilogue
26. The Northrop Frye Effect 279
27. Select Bibliography 303
28. Contributors 313