{"id":3991,"date":"2009-10-14T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:43:38","slug":"frye-and-martin-amis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/14\/frye-and-martin-amis\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye and Martin Amis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s really interesting to read in Russell’s earlier post<\/a> that Martin Amis considered attending U of T in 1971 to study with Frye before publishing his first breakout novel, The Rachel Papers<\/a><\/em>, in which Frye plays an integral part in the protagonist Charles Highway’s intellectual development.\u00a0 It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the novel, but if I remember correctly, Highway must read Frye more or less under the covers, in secret: it is completely symptomatic of a time when Frye had somehow become anathema to the British idea of literary scholarship.\u00a0 I know I’m a partisan, but I’d still say that in the long run, the British lost out in the bargain.\u00a0 When the Franco-American poststructuralist tide was rising in the 1980s, the English school had very little to fight back with on literature’s behalf, and the lingering Leavisites<\/a> certainly weren’t going to get the job done.<\/p>\n

Frye also appears regularly in Amis’s critical writings, and is part and parcel with the contrarian badboy outlook that continues to carry him as both an author and a critic.\u00a0 (One of his best observations is that a literary critic’s most essential attribute is a spine: something to tingle when tingling is the required response.)\u00a0 Anyone interested in getting a sense of\u00a0Frye’s influence on\u00a0Amis should check out his excellent collection of articles and reviews, The War Against Cliche<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s really interesting to read in Russell’s earlier post that Martin Amis considered attending U of T in 1971 to study with Frye before publishing his first breakout novel, The Rachel Papers, in which Frye plays an integral part in the protagonist Charles Highway’s intellectual development.\u00a0 It’s been a very long time since I’ve read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[26,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence","category-literary-criticism"],"yoast_head":"\nFrye and Martin Amis - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/14\/frye-and-martin-amis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frye and Martin Amis - 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