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This is a good time to look at Russell Perkin’s article “Northrop Frye on the Meaning of Christmas” in the Denham Library here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An excerpt:<\/p>\n

The Christmas editorials Frye wrote for the Canadian Forum<\/em> magazine are haunted by the shadows of the war that had just ended and the Cold War that had already begun. There are four of these editorials, appearing from 1946 to 1949; between 1948 and 1950, Frye served as the managing editor of the magazine (Gorak xx; see also \u201cFrye at the Forum\u201d). They were evidently popular, for Frye\u2019s diary of 11 January 1950 records: \u201cWent over to the Forum office: they say they can\u2019t let me off Christmas editorials for a while yet: they give the Forum too much publicity. Some Indianapolis paper that scrounges quotable things covered the back of its Xmas issue with it: somebody in the States mimeographed it & sent it out as a Xmas card; McAree (this I didn\u2019t know) referred to it & quoted a slab of it. I generally read McAree too\u201d (D<\/em> 225). John V. McAree was an editorial columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail<\/em> (see the \u201cDirectory of People Mentioned in the Diaries,\u201d D<\/em> 648). In spite of this, the Christmas editorial for 1949 was Frye\u2019s last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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