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It has become apparent that there is something rather fascinating about the place of Frye in the academy.\u00a0 As I have suggested previously, when I came to graduate school, Frye\u2019s value on the academic stock market was low \u2013 despite the fact that the University of Toronto was publishing on a regular basis volumes of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye<\/em>.\u00a0 As a somewhat na\u00efve graduate student, I assumed the University of Toronto would be the ideal<\/em> place to study Frye.\u00a0 Frye’s archives, his annotated library — his presence and\u00a0influence still linger at Victoria College at least.\u00a0 And yet, Frye remains something of an enigma at Toronto.\u00a0 At the annual Victoria book sale, when I generally buy whatever book on Frye I can find, the sales people almost always tell me stories\u00a0about when they were students sitting in one of Professor Frye\u2019s lectures.\u00a0 So Frye is not \u201cdead\u201d at Victoria; instead, he seems to be caught between silence and shadows and yet remains a conspicuous\u00a0presence: Northrop Frye Hall,\u00a0various portraits throughout the college, and some of his former students still roaming the halls.\u00a0 So what does the graduate student today, at Toronto, do?\u00a0 How does the graduate student approach Frye?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe\u00a0Adamson recently spoke of wanting to teach Frye and Cultural Studies.\u00a0 This graduate student of Comparative Literature says: please, please teach a course\u00a0like this.\u00a0 Cultural Studies are taking hold in literary studies; Frye seems an ideal candidate to be included in that debate.\u00a0 In Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader<\/a><\/em>, the editors \u2013 Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurshou \u2013 include a few selections from Frye.\u00a0 This is one way to bring Frye into the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

Likewise, David Clark at McMaster write, when asked to compare Frye\u2019s work to Derrida: What does Jacques Derrida\u2019s work have that Frye\u2019s doesn\u2019t?, \u201cI want to say right away that Frye’s work is richly significant. He played a crucially important role in the history of Canadian letters and in the life of a particular Canadian academic imaginary, signs of which are still to be found in the university. One of the things we have yet to see, though, are slow readers–to remember something Nietzsche once said–of Frye’s work, i.e. readers who put enough confidence in the complexity and critical power of his work to be willing and able to read it resistantly and against the grain, and to read it symptomatically, with an eye to its productive self-differences, occlusions, and unconsciousnesses.\u201d\u00a0 This is, perhaps, another response to how to engage with Frye and one that will likely offer many new perspectives and likely revisionary readings as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not certain if this is or is not Frye\u2019s Golden Age, but I\u2019m inclined to think that Frye is ready for a \u201ccome-back\u201d and will likely return in ways that are just now being conceived of.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frye is being read, of this I am certain \u2013 at least I am thinking and writing about Frye and hope to offer work that helps to re-energize the debate.\u00a0 But my work tries to negotiate Frye with the phenomena of critical theory, popular theoretical models, and taking him\u00a0places Frye himself\u00a0didn\u2019t go; for instance, Latin American narrative.\u00a0 I recognize Frye thought about Borges<\/a> and a copy of Garcia Marquez\u2019s One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em> <\/a>sits in the annotated collection,\u00a0as does the Popol Vuh<\/a><\/em> \u2013 but Frye still\u00a0has so much more\u00a0to offer.\u00a0 I am sure that readers will\u00a0continue to find him\u00a0and academics will inspire a new generation of\u00a0students to return to Frye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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