【作者简介】 诺思罗普·弗莱（Northrop Frye ，1912—1991），加拿大文学理论界代表人物，原型批评创始人。真正把文学批评当作一门独立的学科，对其自身进行比较系统的探讨，是从弗莱的《批评的解剖》开始的。另著有《世俗的经典》《神力的语言》等30余部著作。 弗莱是加拿大文学领域的杰出代表，1951年入选加拿大皇家学会，1967年任多伦多大学教授，曾获加拿大勋章、加拿大总督文学奖、多伦多文科终身成就奖等众多奖项。2000年，加拿大政府为纪念弗莱，发行了弗莱主题邮票并设立了诺思罗普·弗莱国际艺术节。 ··· 【译者简介】 李雪菲，北京大学法语系学士学位，巴黎索邦大学文学硕士学位，纽约大学法语系博士在读。

Addressed to educators and general readers--the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life--this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge ...(展开全部)

In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works ...(展开全部)

‘An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD.’ – Bill Gates Selected as a book of the year in THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE AMAZON.COM’s BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ________________________ Tara Westover and her family ...(展开全部)

By Tara Westover. Random House; 385 pages; $28. Hutchinson; [pounds sterling]14.99 A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing. The author grew up in a normally opaque environment: a Mormon survivalist household in Idaho, where she endured abuse and received no education. Despite not setting foot in a classroom until she was 17, she made it to university and wound up with a PhD fr...(展开全部)

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, "Launching the Imagination" offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, kn...(展开全部)