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New Additions to the Journal and Library
Bob Denham (or “the human Pez-dispenser,” as Joe Adamson calls him, thanks to his uncanny ability to turn out new work for us) has provided our latest additions to the journal and the Denham Library.
First, a biography of Frye’s early years in Moncton, New Brunswick, posted in the journal here. He’s also provided us with two previously unpublished talks given at Victoria College, “Who Is This Guy Frye?” and “The Significance of ‘Beyond’ in Frye’s Visionary Poetics”, both now posted in the Library.
And here’s a heads up: we will soon be posting in its entirety Bob’s first book on Frye: Northrop Frye and Critical Method. Given that Amazon.com is advertising new copies of the book at 175 bucks a pop, that’s quite a coup for us — and we’re passing on the savings directly to you.
TGIF: TPB
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etkarB72RbE
What’s Canada famous for besides Frye? In no particular order, hockey, Glenn Gould, Alice Munro, maple syrup, Bachman Turner Overdrive, SCTV, Rush, and back bacon. Oh, and Trailer Park Boys.
Here’s a highlight reel (part one).
Bonus “Trailer Park Boys 101” doc after the jump.
Quote of the Day
“Works of literature are not so much things to be studied as powers to be possessed.”
Frye, “Literature as Therapy”
A Valentine
Thomas More Institute, Montreal
Nicholas Graham has sent us an unexpected but much appreciated Valentine: a previously unpublished transcript of a panel discussion with Frye about the newly-published Secular Scripture at Montreal’s Thomas More Institute. The discussion was recorded in May 1976.
It is now posted in the Denham Library here.
Saturday Night Video
For Bob Denham: k d lang and Roy Orbison, Crying
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EiKPrAOHA
After the jump, k d singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
New Additions to the Denham Library
Victoria College Chapel
Bob Denham has provided us with two new additions to the Denham Library.
The first is class notes for Frye’s course on Milton, 1953 – 1954. This is the eighth set of class notes to be added to the Library. Bob jokes that soon enough Frye scholars will in effect be able to attend Frye’s classes without registering or paying tuition.
The second is a previously unpublished set of notes on the Victoria College chapel windows, perhaps intended for a lecture or a sermon. This is most definitely very rare Frygiana. Take a look.
We are also very pleased to tell you that our new administrator, Clayton Chrusch, is slowly but surely making his way through the Denham Library collection to correct minor formatting problems that arise when translating from one text software to another.
TGIF: Oh, What the Hell . . .
. . . here’s the unedited much talked about interview last week of Jon Stewart by Bill O’Reilly
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4WGtg1uXQQ
The rest of the interview after the jump.
The Frye Festival Archive in the Northrop Frye Journal
On Monday we will be rolling out a dedicated Frye Festival section in the Frye Journal portion of The Educated Imagination, featuring papers delivered over the years at the annual Frye Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick. (You can register for this year’s Festival here.)
Our first addition to the archive will be Jean O’Grady’s paper, “Re-valuing Value,” delivered in 2007. On Monday we will cross-post it here at the blog as well as in the Journal, as we will do with all papers added to the Frye Festival archive. We’ll try to provide you a steady stream of them in the weeks leading up to this year’s Festival, which runs between April 19th and 25th. Be sure to visit the Festival website here.
Quote of the Day
“There are always more books than brains in an aristocracy”
Oscar Wilde