Northrop Frye's fiction and miscellaneous writings

578 Pages·2007·4.365 MB·English

by  Frye, Northrop;Denham, Robert Dayton;Dolzani, Michael

Collected Works of Northrop Frye
VOLUME 25
Northrop Frye’s Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings
The Collected Edition of the Works of Northrop Frye has been planned
and is being directed by an editorial committee under the aegis of
Victoria University, through its Northrop Frye Centre. The purpose of
the edition is to make available authoritative texts of both published
and unpublished works, based on an analysis and comparison of all
available materials, and supported by scholarly apparatus, including
annotation and introductions. The Northrop Frye Centre gratefully
acknowledges financial support, through McMaster University, from the
Michael G. DeGroote family.
Editorial Committee
General Editor
Alvin A. Lee
Associate Editor
Jean O’Grady
Editors
Joseph Adamson
Robert D. Denham
Michael Dolzani
A.C. Hamilton
David Staines
Advisers
Robert Brandeis
Paul Gooch
Eva Kushner
Jane Millgate
Ron Schoeffel
Clara Thomas
Jane Widdicombe
Northrop Frye’s Fiction
and Miscellaneous Writings
VOLUME 25
Edited by Robert D. Denham
and Michael Dolzani
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
www.utppublishing.com
© Victoria University, University of Toronto, and Robert D. Denham
and Michael Dolzani (preface, introduction, annotation) 2007
Printed in Canada
isbn 978-0-8020-9302-8
Printed on acid-free paper
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Frye, Northrop, 1912–1991
Northrop Frye’s fiction and miscellaneous writings / edited by
Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani.
(Collected works of Northrop Frye v. 25)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8020-9302-8
1. Frye, Northrop, 1912–1991. I. Denham, Robert D.
II. Dolzani, Michael, 1951– III. Title. IV. Series.
pn75.f7a2 2007 c818(cid:99).5409 c2007-903226-5
This volume has been published with the assistance of a grant from
Victoria University.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to
its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its
publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the
Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
For Alvin A. Lee
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Contents
Preface
xv
Abbreviations
xix
Introduction
xxiii
1. Autobiographical Reflections
Notebook 42b: Autobiographical Notes I
3
Autobiographical Notes II: 3 Outline of the Ogdoad
27
Autobiographical Notes III: First Memories
30
Autobiographical Notes IV: The Critic and the Writer
33
Notebook 30r: Autobiographical Notes V: Injunctions
37
Memoir: Helen Kemp Frye
39
vviiiiii IntrCodounctetinotns
John Robins Eulogy
42
Memories of Victoria College
44
Speech at Moncton’s Centennial Celebration: Diversity in Unity
47
2. Short Stories, Unfinished Novel, and Speculations
on Fiction Writing
Eight Fables
59
The Ghost
59
Fable ... in the Nineteenth-Century Idiom
62
Face to Face
64
Affable Angel
67
The Resurgent
70
Prelude
76
Incident from The Golden Bough
78
Interpreter’s Parlour
84
The Locust-Eaters: Frye’s Unfinished Novel
From Notebook 2: Chapters 1–4
86
ICnotrnotednutcstion iixx
From Notebook 1: Notes on Character and Style
104
From Notebook 30m: Sketching the Plot
123
Notebook 4: Early Reflections on Fiction Writing
127
New Fictional Formulas
From Notebook 20: The Double Vision
140
Notebook 28: Philosophical Romance
147
From Notebook 30o: Journey-through-States-of-Being Fiction
149
From Notebook 2: Bardo Novel
150
The Academic Novel
153
Notes on Twilight
155
3. Music and the Visual Arts
Notebook 5: Baroque and Classical Composers
159
Notebook 17: William Byrd
178
Modal Harmony in Music
185
Hart House Quartet
187