As many of you will know, a conference was held at the University of Toronto at the beginning of October in honour of Frye’s centenary, and on Thursday evening a bronze statue of Frye (modeled on the one originally unveiled in Moncton earlier this year) was unveiled in the quad of Victoria College. The statue is located just outside Northrop Frye Hall. For more on the unveiling, go here.
The conference itself was a great success, the level of the papers very high, and the considerable number of papers from the younger generation of scholars gave us much to hope for the future of Frye studies. The conference website, here, may be posting some of the papers. Here is the conference program:
EDUCATING THE IMAGINATION:
A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF NORTHROP FRYE ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
October 4th – 6th 2012,
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Programme
THURSDAY OCTOBER 4TH, 2012
9.45 -10.00 Welcome by Neil ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto)
10.00-11.15 am
Panel 1: Influences on Frye (Chair: Melissa Dalgleish, York University)
Joseph Adamson (McMaster University): “Frye and Edgar Allan Poe”
Craig Stephenson (IAAP): “Reading Frye Reading Jung”
Robert D. Denham (Roanoke College, Emeritus): “Frye and Colin Still”
11.30 am-12.45 pm
Panel 2: Frye: Structure and Change (Chair: Paul Downes, University of Toronto)
Duncan McFarlane (University of Ottawa): “Frye, Bloom, and the Problem of Satire”
Jan Gorak (University of Denver): “Frye and the Comedy of Humors”
Glen Robert Gill (Montclair State University): “The Dialectics of Myth: Northrop Frye’s Theory of Culture”
12.45-2.00 Lunch (on your own)
2.00-3.30
Plenary Lecture by Robert Bringhurst
“The Use and Abuse of Theory in Literature”
(Chair: Germaine Warkentin, University of Toronto)