{"id":11606,"date":"2010-05-22T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2010-05-22T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:00:53","slug":"frye-alert-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/05\/22\/frye-alert-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/rage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11607\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/rage.jpg\" alt=\"rage\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Maclemee in <em>The National, <\/em>an English-language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, reviews Peter Sloterdijk&#8217;s <em>Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation, <\/em>and cites Frye to make sense of the unusual genre that Sloterdijk writes in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That genre is the anatomy, a rambling prose form that now seems  old-fashioned. The locus classicus is Richard Burton\u2019s <em>The Anatomy of  Melancholy<\/em>, but the label also covers works of fiction such as Jonathan  Swift\u2019s satires and Aldous Huxley\u2019s novels. \u201cAt its most concentrated,\u201d  writes Northrop Frye, the form \u201cpresents us with a vision of the world  in terms of a single intellectual pattern\u201d that is the product of a  particular temperament or psychic state. There is always something wild  and excessive about how ideas are developed in an anatomy; it\u2019s as if an  encyclopaedia were having a nervous breakdown. The anatomist \u2013 to  continue quoting from Frye\u2019s own <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> \u2013 \u201cshows his  exuberance in intellectual ways, by piling up an enormous mass of  erudition about his theme or in overwhelming his pedantic targets with  an avalanche of his own jargon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire review can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100521\/REVIEW\/705209972\/1008\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Maclemee in The National, an English-language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, reviews Peter Sloterdijk&#8217;s Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation, and cites Frye to make sense of the unusual genre that Sloterdijk writes in. That genre is the anatomy, a rambling prose form that now seems old-fashioned. 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