{"id":9837,"date":"2010-03-30T01:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=9837"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:48:27","slug":"michael-dolzani-the-view-from-a-northern-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/30\/michael-dolzani-the-view-from-a-northern-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dolzani: &#8220;The View from the Northern Farm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/fp-logo2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9839\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/fp-logo2.png\" alt=\"fp-logo\" width=\"291\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/fp-logo2.png 415w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/fp-logo2-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Dolzani&#8217;s 2004 talk to the Frye Festival, &#8220;The View From the Northern Farm: Northrop Frye and Nature&#8221;, is now posted in the Frye Festival archive in the journal.\u00a0 You can link to it directly <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/the-view-from-the-northern-farm-northrop-frye-and-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My title is inspired, if that is the word, from the fact that the name \u201cNorthrop\u201d apparently means \u201cnorthern farm.\u201d\u00a0 In fact, the name-book whence the information derives lists Northrop Frye as the most famous instance of the name.\u00a0 When I first learned of this, I thought it was a bit ironic.\u00a0 Northrop Frye\u2019s sensibility is urban; he belongs to Moncton and Toronto, and does not have much to do with farms.\u00a0 He is, however, northern, and the etymology got itself linked in my mind with the lyrics to a song called \u201cFarmhouse,\u201d from an album of the same title by the rock group Phish.\u00a0 In the song, the speaker begins by saying, \u201cWelcome, this is a farmhouse.\u201d\u00a0 But he quickly goes on to apologize that \u201cWe have cluster-flies, alas \/ And this time of year is bad. \/ We are so very sorry, \/ There is little we can do \/ But swat them.\u201d\u00a0 The failure of nature seems linked to the failure of human relationships, and the failure of relationships in turn to the failure of community, as the speaker drifts from alluding to a lover who walked out on him to the observation that \u201cEach betrayal begins with trust, \/ Every man returns to dust.\u201d\u00a0 Then, unexpectedly, an anthem-like refrain erupts with a complete reversal of the meaning of this melancholic farmhouse:\u00a0 \u201cI never saw the stars so bright, \/ In the farmhouse things will be all right.\u201d\u00a0 This reversal, or, to use Frye\u2019s term, recreation of the vision of inhospitable nature and selfish human nature is the subject of my talk.\u00a0 The direction of the reversal is from a \u201crealistic\u201d perspective allied with both common sense and scientific materialism to what Shakespeare in <em>Twelfth Night<\/em> calls \u201cA natural perspective, that is and is not.\u201d\u00a0 The latter is the perspective that we call imaginative and spiritual.\u00a0 It both is and is not because it begins as a fiction, and yet, unlike mere wish-fulfillment fantasies, has the potential to transform what the poet Wallace Stevens called \u201cthings as they are.\u201d The fact that Frye, like Stevens, with various qualifications, grants authority to both perspectives gives him the title of his last book, <em>The Double Vision.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Phish&#8217;s &#8220;Farmhouse&#8221; after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LaLINFjBRPM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dolzani&#8217;s 2004 talk to the Frye Festival, &#8220;The View From the Northern Farm: Northrop Frye and Nature&#8221;, is now posted in the Frye Festival archive in the journal.\u00a0 You can link to it directly here. 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