{"id":30727,"date":"2012-11-01T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=30727"},"modified":"2012-11-01T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:47:18","slug":"frye-st-thomas-and-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2012\/11\/01\/frye-st-thomas-and-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye, St. Thomas and Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Toronto Raptor home game yesterday to start the \u00a0new NBA season\u00a0( and no NHL games in sight) reminded me of Northrop Frye&#8217;s thoughts on the game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Princeton I bought four books to keep me up to date with the mid-50s. Maritain\u2019s, Malraux\u2019s <em>Voices of Silence<\/em>, Auerbach\u2019s <em>Mimesis<\/em>, and Curtius on medieval literature and Latin. At that time Curtius was the only one I could read with any real profit: <em>Mimesis<\/em> was all very well but I was working out an anti-mimetic theory of literature; Malraux said a few excellent things but was full of bullshit; Maritain, as I said, kept busting his skull against this preposterous \u201cArt and Scholasticism\u201d thesis, insisting that critical theory just had to come out of St. Thomas, who cared as much about the arts as I do about basketball league playoffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(CW: Late Notebooks 1982-1990)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Toronto Raptor home game yesterday to start the \u00a0new NBA season\u00a0( and no NHL games in sight) reminded me of Northrop Frye&#8217;s thoughts on the game: At Princeton I bought four books to keep me up to date with the mid-50s. 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