In 20 papers from a May 2000 conference at McMasters University, scholars mostly of literature and mostly from Canada and the US explore literary critic Frye's (1912-91) engagement with words and the Word, with secular and sacred scripture. The topics include his career as a spiral curriculum, metaphor and the two sources of religion, the metaphysical foundation of his monodology, philosophy and the revealed word, his relationship to Catholicism, the poetry in biblical hermeneutics, and the trickster god. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR