{"id":4047,"date":"2009-10-15T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2009-10-15T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:48:41","slug":"small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/15\/small-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Small World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4048\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/smallworld.jpg\" alt=\"smallworld\" width=\"297\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/smallworld.jpg 297w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/smallworld-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Responding to Bob Denham&#8217;s earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/10\/15\/making-literature-out-of-frye\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bob, A quibble about Frye and David Lodge (whom I have been working on recently). Lodge\u2019s <em>Small World<\/em> is self-consciously \u201cAn Academic Romance,\u201d and Lodge used Frye\u2019s writings on romance to help him think about the genre. But I don\u2019t think that his Professor Kingfisher has much in common with Frye. Kingfisher, \u201ca man whose life is a concise history of modern criticism,\u201d is born in Vienna, and has links to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prague_School_Structuralism\" target=\"_blank\">Prague structuralism<\/a> before coming to the USA to become a leading figure in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_criticism\" target=\"_blank\">New Criticism<\/a>. All of that makes him resemble <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rene_Wellek\" target=\"_blank\">Rene Wellek<\/a>, who of course wrote a history of criticism. (In other ways, the character does not correspond to Wellek.) I remember that Lodge once commented in an interview that his deconstructionist friends, who in their theorizing denied any connexion between literature and any non-linguistic reality, were the ones who were most adamant in their questions about who various characters in <em>Small World<\/em> \u201creally\u201d were! From an archetypal point of view, the name Kingfisher signals that the character originates in Jessie Weston\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/From_Ritual_to_Romance\" target=\"_blank\"><em>From Ritual to Romance<\/em> <\/a>via T. S. Eliot, so the idea for the character was perhaps inspired by Frye\u2019s theorizing of romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to Bob Denham&#8217;s earlier post: Bob, A quibble about Frye and David Lodge (whom I have been working on recently). Lodge\u2019s Small World is self-consciously \u201cAn Academic Romance,\u201d and Lodge used Frye\u2019s writings on romance to help him think about the genre. But I don\u2019t think that his Professor Kingfisher has much in common [&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":[92,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism","category-romance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Small World&quot; - 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\/15\/small-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Small World&quot; - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Responding to Bob Denham&#8217;s earlier post: Bob, A quibble about Frye and David Lodge (whom I have been working on recently). 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