Divisions on a Ground
Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture is a collection of essays by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye, 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 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
- National Consciousness in Canadian Culture
- Sharing the Continent
- "Conclusion" to Literary History of Canada Second Edition
- Teaching the Humanities Today
- Humanities in a New World
- The Writer and the University
- The Teacher's Source of Authority
- The Definition of a University
- The Ethics of Change
- Canada: New World Without Revolution
- The Rear-View Mirror: Notes Toward A Future