Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture is a collection of essays by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

, edited by James Polk and published in 1982. The collection includes lectures, addresses and previously published articles by Frye. Divisions on a Ground presents Frye's theorizing about Canada with respect to three main themes: Canadian literary writing, university education in Canada and internationally, and a more general "social order" perspective. This collection diverges from Frye's better-known The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination

The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination

The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination is a collection of essays by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye . The collection was originally published in 1971; it was republished, with an introduction by Canadian postmodern theorist Linda Hutcheon, in 1995. The Bush Garden features...

in its approach to Canada in that it does not present the "Canadian imagination" in isolation, but rather as one of several components of Canadian society identity.

Contents

I Writing

• Culture as Interpenetration
• Across the River and Out of the Trees and The Arts in Canada: The Last Fifty Years edited by W. J. Keith and B.-Z. Shek, pp. 1-4. University of Toronto Press 1980)
• National Consciousness in Canadian Culture
• Sharing the Continent
• "Conclusion" to Literary History of Canada Second Edition

II Teaching

• Teaching the Humanities Today
• Humanities in a New World
• The Writer and the University
• The Teacher's Source of Authority

III The Social Order

• The Definition of a University
• The Ethics of Change
• Canada: New World Without Revolution
• The Rear-View Mirror: Notes Toward A Future