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Several years back Glen R. Gill, author of Northorp Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth<\/a><\/em>, emailed me (and I think others) to ask if I had an opinion on the proper adjectival form of \u201cFrye.\u201d\u00a0 For some reason this struck my funny\u2011bone, and so I dropped my pedantic inquiry into what Frye meant by \u201cchess\u2011in\u2011bardo\u201d or whatever I was doing to pen this bit of doggerel:<\/p>\n FRYIAN, FRYGEAN, OR FRYEAN?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So what\u2019s the adjective for \u201cFrye\u201d? At other times it disappears, For precedent consider \u201cStyx\u201d: But why restrict phonetic rule Thus, \u201cFrygean\u201d applies to texts, But I will quiz the linguist Kris Meanwhile, methinks that Glen R. Gill As it turned out, my daughter Kristin, who teaches linguistics at the University of Western Washington (which is practically in Canada), could not provide me with a clear-cut phonological rule, so we just had to let Glen Gill wander in the phonetic wilderness, though the doggerel made it clear that I myself preferred \u201cFrygean\u201d with a soft \u201cg\u201d\u2013\u2013the palatal affricate \/j\/\u2013\u2013in spite of the hint of \u201cfrigid\u201d that clings to it.\u00a0 It subsequently occurred to me that we could open up a whole area of Frye studies devoted to such momentous questions.\u00a0 As \u201cFrygean\u201d would necessarily require a dictionary of prefixes, we could begin with these entries:<\/p>\n ambiFrygeans (those who want to have it both ways)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n anaFrygeans (those who approach Frye from the late works backwards)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n antiFrygeans; cf. dysFrygean and contraFrygean (Eagleton and Company)<\/p>\n cataFrygeans (those who have no anabatic tendencies)<\/p>\n circumFrygeans (those who can\u2019t get to the heart of the matter)<\/p>\n anteFrygeans (Plato through Eliot)<\/p>\n postFrygeans (we latter-day blokes)<\/p>\n synFrygeans; cf. conFrygeans (The Educated Imagination\u201d bloggers)<\/p>\n mesoFrygeans (those from the 1960s-1970s)<\/p>\n apoFrygeans (converts who have drifted away)<\/p>\n superFrygean; cf. macroFrygean (Michael Dolzani)<\/p>\n microFrygean (me)<\/p>\n panFrygean (Alvin Lee)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And we will naturally require a glossary that provides proper definitions of other words in which a suffix is attached to \u201cFrye.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s a start:<\/p>\n Fryics (noun), having to do with Frye (as in \u201cphysics,\u201d \u201coptics\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryoid (noun), resembling Frye (as in \u201casteroid\u201d).\u00a0 Shortened form, Froid, rhymes with Freud.<\/p>\n Frysm (noun), belief in Frye or practice of his ideas (as in Buddhism)<\/p>\n Fryiac (adj.), pertaining to (as in \u201ccardiac\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryana or Fryiana (noun), collection of things having to do with Frye (as in \u201cCanadiana\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryst (noun), one who believes in Frye and practices his methods (as in \u201cenvironmentalist\u201d)<\/p>\n Frysk (noun), small Frye (as in \u201casterisk\u201d).\u00a0 Cf. Fryscle, small Frye (as in \u201cmuscle\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryical (adj.), pertaining to Frye (as in \u201cbiblical\u201d)<\/p>\n Frye-ite (noun), one connected with (as in \u201cIsraelite\u201d).\u00a0 Shortened form, Fryte<\/p>\n Fryure (noun), that which pertains to Frye (as in \u201cnature\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryer (noun), one who does things like Frye (as in \u201cspeaker\u201d)<\/p>\n Frytic (adj.), having to do with Frye, pertaining to Frye (as in \u201canthropomorphic\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Fryary (1) (adj.,\u00a0 -aris or -arius, meaning \u201cof, having to do with Frye\u201d), as in \u201ccautionary,\u201d \u201cplenipotentiary.\u201d\u00a0 Fryary (2) (noun, -arius, meaning \u201cone who is concerned with Frye\u201d), as in \u201cvoluptuary,\u201d \u201cantiquary.\u201d\u00a0 Fryary (3) (noun, -arium, meaning \u201cplace for studying Frye, as in, \u201csanctuary,\u201d \u201clibrary.\u201d\u00a0 Alternate form, Fryarium.\u00a0 Banned alternate forms, Frye Centre and (for those south of the 49th parallel) Frye Center.\u00a0 Cf. Fryia (noun), the area of Frye studies (as in \u201csuburbia\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryolent (adj.), tending to be full of Frye (as in \u201cvirulent,\u201d \u201cviolent\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryous or Fryose (adj.), tending to be full of Frye (as in \u201cnumerous,\u201d \u201cotiose\u201d)<\/p>\n Frysis (noun), state or condition of Frye (as in \u201canalysis\u201d)<\/p>\n Frym (noun), result of Frye (as in \u201cproblem\u201d).\u00a0 Alternate form, Fryma<\/p>\n Fryilia (noun), things having to do with Frye (as in \u201cjuvenilia\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryarius (noun), one who is concerned with Frye (as in \u201cadversary\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryant (noun), one who does things like Frye<\/p>\n Fryable (adj.), capable of being like Frye<\/p>\n Fryey (adj.), somewhat like or having the qualities of Frye<\/p>\n Fryine (adj.), women who are like Frye<\/p>\n Fryum (noun), related to Frye (as in \u201calbum\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryitis (noun), state of being inflamed by Frye (as in \u201cbronchitis\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryoma (noun), a tumor produced by reading too much Frye (as in \u201cfibroma\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryence (noun), state of being like Frye (as in \u201cprominence\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryate (adj.), to become associated with Frye or having Frye\u2019s qualities (as in \u201cirate\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryity, or Fryty (noun), the quality of being Frygean (as in \u201cverity\u201d)<\/p>\n Fryal (adj.), pertaining to Frye (as in \u201cnatal\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Learned addenda on precedents for various adjectival forms, including the three\u2011consecutive vowel form:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 [From English B01 materials, Scarborough College, U of T]<\/p>\n Frygian<\/strong> Criticism<\/p>\n The term Frygian<\/em> <\/strong>criticism<\/em> usually refers to those critics influenced by Frye\u2019s ideas, who are interested in reading specific literary texts in terms of the recurring themes and large mythic patterns he identified. Such criticism tends to universalize literary works. Although Frygian<\/strong> critics tend to identify images or archetypes in a way derived from Frye\u2019s definitions, they may focus on the way in which themes that are connected to a particular culture or society are identifiable in its literary texts. Frye\u2019s connection of archetypes to mythoi and to seasons may or may not be important to Frygian<\/strong> critics. (See below, theme, thematic criticism)<\/p>\n Frye, himself, is not always a Frygian<\/strong> critic, even in the Anatomy of Criticism.<\/em> In fact, he would have seen this form of criticism as a subcategory of what he called archetypical criticism. The approach that has come to be known as Frygian<\/strong> criticism is, and was for Frye, but one way to approach a text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2. [From article at http:\/\/216.239.35.100\/search?q=cache:-8KQjPiAWFYC:philosophy.fullcoll.edu\/res\/profiles\/feminists\/atwood2.PDF+frygean&hl=en&ie=UTF-8<\/a>]<\/p>\n Both Atwood\u2019s familiarity with conventions and her strategy of displacement are the legacy of another important force shaping her work: the archetypal theory of Northrop Frye and of Jay MacPherson, who taught her at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Atwood\u2019s own critical approach follows Frygean<\/strong> \u201cthematic criticism\u201d to read Canadian culture through literary texts as exemplifications of the dilemma of a \u201cgarrison mentality\u201d in its colonialist self-alienation and paralysis of the imagination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 3.\u00a0 [Title of Margaret Burgess\u2019s article in Northrop Frye and the Afterlife of the Word<\/em>]<\/p>\n From Archetype to Antitype: A Look at Frygian<\/strong> Archetypology<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 4. [From chart at http:\/\/www.sou.edu\/English\/IDTC\/Issues\/Gender\/Resources\/mentax1.htm<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nDo you pronounce your \u201cg\u201d as hard?
\nDo you, like Gill, just wonder why
\nThe \u201cg\u201d is sometimes soft as lard?<\/p>\n
\nWith triplet vowels aligned in row.
\nThe folks must surely have tin ears
\nWho say the \u201cg\u201d has gotta go.<\/p>\n
\nIts adjective requires a \u201cg.\u201d
\nFor even Appalachian hicks
\n\u201cNorwegian\u201d works phonetically.<\/p>\n
\nTo followers of Norrie Frye?
\nDoes not the pedant, simple fool,
\nInduce, then universify?<\/p>\n
\nTo arguments and archetypes,
\nTo all the Spirit\/Word contexts.
\nThe lightest and the darkest types.<\/p>\n
\n(My daughter): she may know the rule
\nTo cure our ignorance of bliss
\nAnd send us back to suffix school.<\/p>\n
\nShould forego adjectives for Jung
\nAnd Freud and Frye, and just fulfill
\nWhat Norrie craved\u2014a simple tongue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n