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A call for papers via Neil ten Kortenaar<\/em><\/p>\n CFP: Educating the Imagination: A Conference in Honour of Northrop Frye on the Centenary of His Birth.<\/strong><\/p>\n October 4,5,6, 2012, Victoria University in the University of Toronto<\/p>\n Twenty years after his death, Northrop Frye, the author of Fearful Symmetry<\/em> and Anatomy of Criticism<\/em>, continues to be one of the most read and the most quoted of literary critics.\u00a0 His attention to form, specifically to genre and mode, and his understanding of literature as a totality have directly influenced two later generations of critics, including Hayden White\u00a0 Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti.\u00a0 In order to celebrate this ongoing legacy, the Department of English and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Frye\u2019s home throughout his career, have organized a three-day symposium in his honour.<\/p>\n Keynote speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ian Balfour<\/strong>, York University, author of Northrop Frye<\/em> (1988), The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy<\/em> (2002)<\/p>\n Robert Bringhurst<\/strong>, poet, author of A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World<\/em> (1999) and Selected Poetry <\/em>(2009)<\/p>\n J. Edward Chamberlin<\/strong>, University of Toronto, author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies<\/em> (1993) and If This Is Your Land, Where \u00a0Are Your Stories?<\/em> (2003)<\/p>\n Michael Dolzani<\/strong>, Baldwin-Wallace College, editor of Frye\u2019s Notebooks<\/em><\/p>\n W.J.T. Mitchell<\/strong>, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry<\/em> and author of What Do Pictures Want?<\/em> (2005) and Picture Theory<\/em> (1994)<\/p>\n