{"id":3978,"date":"2009-10-14T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:25:45","slug":"12-march-1974-northrop-frye-looks-to-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/14\/12-march-1974-northrop-frye-looks-to-the-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"12 March 1974: Northrop Frye Looks to the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3979\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/fryerobed.jpg\" alt=\"fryerobed\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/fryerobed.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/fryerobed-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been browsing in a recently acquired copy of Bob Denham\u2019s new collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Northrop-Frye-Selected-Letters-1934-1991\/dp\/0786443626\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 These build up a picture of Frye largely in the role of\u00a0 professional academic.\u00a0 It is a wonderful book, and the range of correspondents and subjects is remarkable.\u00a0 For example, Frye writes to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Amis\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Amis<\/a> in 1971 about the latter\u2019s interest in studying at the University of Toronto, and to Greg Gatenby in 1987 with some very amusing memories of meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallace_Stevens\" target=\"_blank\">Wallace Stevens <\/a>at Columbia University in 1948 .\u00a0 In 1974, Frye looks to the future while commenting to Bob Denham on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Northrop-Frye-Enumerative-Bibliography-bibliographies\/dp\/0810806932\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Northrop Frye: An Enumerative Bibliography<\/em><\/a>, a copy of which Frye has just received:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bibliography is a most impressive achievement: your introduction in particular, which I had not seen before, seems to me an excellent and very judicious one.\u00a0 Reading through Section 3, I am astonished at the number of people who seem to have rushed into print with the notion that my view of literature is preposterous.\u00a0 Something tells me that the twenty-first century will have a good deal of difficulty in understanding what all the fuss was about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been browsing in a recently acquired copy of Bob Denham\u2019s new collection, Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991.\u00a0 These build up a picture of Frye largely in the role of\u00a0 professional academic.\u00a0 It is a wonderful book, and the range of correspondents and subjects is remarkable.\u00a0 For example, Frye writes to Martin Amis in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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