{"id":31190,"date":"2013-01-14T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2013-01-14T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:35:44","slug":"frye-scoop-northrop-frye-and-finnegans-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2013\/01\/14\/frye-scoop-northrop-frye-and-finnegans-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Scoop: Northrop Frye and Finnegans Wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2013\/01\/14\/frye-scoop-northrop-frye-and-finnegans-wake\/djuna_barnes_-_joyce\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31193\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/01\/Djuna_Barnes_-_Joyce-241x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The editors of the American Scholar, for its thirtieth\u2013anniversary issue, asked a number of distinguished scholars, writers, and critics to select what were for them the outstanding books of the past thirty years (1931\u20131961)\u2013\u2013books notable for originality or enduring significance or for revelation in changes in thoughts and attitudes.\u00a0 Below is Frye\u2019s reply from American Scholar 30, no. 4 (Autumn 1961): 606.\u00a0 This little tidbit was just uncovered: it was not included in Frye\u2019s Collected Works.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty years would include the publication of James Joyce\u2019s <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em> in 1939.\u00a0 This is the only twentieth\u2011century book that I find myself living with, in the way that I live with <em>Tristram Shandy<\/em>, Burton\u2019s <em>Anatomy<\/em>, Dickens, and the greater poets.\u00a0 It is an inexhaustible word\u2011hoard of humor, wit, erudition, and symbolism; it never, for me, degenerates into a mere puzzle, but always has on every page something to astonish and delight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is, of course, no secret that Frye was a great fan of <em>Finnegans Wake.<\/em>\u00a0 He kept his copiously annotated copy of the book on the shelves directly behind the desk chair in his office in Northrop Frye Hall.\u00a0 The twenty\u2011nine volumes of the Collected Works have now been expanded by another 72 words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors of the American Scholar, for its thirtieth\u2013anniversary issue, asked a number of distinguished scholars, writers, and critics to select what were for them the outstanding books of the past thirty years (1931\u20131961)\u2013\u2013books notable for originality or enduring significance or for revelation in changes in thoughts and attitudes.\u00a0 Below is Frye\u2019s reply from American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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