{"id":14354,"date":"2010-07-27T00:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14354"},"modified":"2010-07-27T00:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:05:47","slug":"sylvia-maultash-warsh-recreating-frye-maintaining-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/27\/sylvia-maultash-warsh-recreating-frye-maintaining-a-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Maultash Warsh: Recreating Frye, Preserving a Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/queen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14355\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/queen.jpg\" alt=\"queen\" width=\"200\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sylvia Maultash Warsh is the author of the recently published <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylviawarsh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Queen of Unforgetting<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was at the University of Toronto years ago, like many young undergrads, I didn\u2019t know my own mind and somehow ended up in Psychology instead of English.\u00a0 So though I was a student at U of T, I never had Northrop Frye for a professor. It wasn\u2019t until I had to research the venerable critic for my new novel, <em>The Queen of Unforgetting,<\/em> that I realized just how much I had missed.<\/p>\n<p>I had good reasons for making Frye a character in my story. I like to set my books in Toronto\u2014my first three are historical mysteries that take place on and around Beverley   Street, near the university. \u00a0For this book (not a mystery) I needed an academic superstar, and Frye was the obvious choice. My protagonist, a grad student more ambitious than most, needs a supervisor for her thesis. But not just any supervisor. She knows that a Frye prot\u00e9g\u00e9 will have a good chance at an academic placement when the time comes.\u00a0 To this end, she chooses a thesis topic that will interest him: E.J. Pratt\u2019s epic poem, <em>Br\u00e9beuf and His Brethren<\/em>. \u00a0Pratt was Frye\u2019s mentor and he is pulled in. For my research, I pored over many of Frye\u2019s books and journals; I watched videotaped interviews in which he sits before the camera and gives dazzling little lectures in his famous deadpan.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t look the part, but he was a mythic figure in his own time. Sometimes referred to as The Buddha, the shy brilliant scholar had assimilated vast quantities of literature, philosophy, art, and religion. It was this storehouse of knowledge that let him connect disparate ideas and themes into meaningful patterns. His omnivorous reading made it possible for him to cross borders and draw comparisons between cultures, and particularly their literatures.<\/p>\n<p>Our world has shrunk almost beyond imagination since 1969 when Frye founded the Centre for Comparative Literature at U of T. Today\u2019s global realities require, more than ever, broader understanding of the world around us. Through literature we recognize the similarity in the other, the stranger who looks nothing like us but who lives, loves and dies just the same, only defined by a different set of symbols. A centre dedicated to looking outward toward the other is in a unique position to forge cross-cultural and interdisciplinary ties. A university that doesn\u2019t recognize the value of such an enterprise is in the wrong business.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign the petition in support of the Centre for Comparative Literature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/complit\/petition.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Maultash Warsh is the author of the recently published The Queen of Unforgetting. 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