The Educated Imagination

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Some of the documents here are already posted in PDF, such as the archive for the Frye Newsletter immediately below, as well as the collection of reviews of various Frye works.

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Northrop Frye Newsletter (Each issue in PDF format)

• Volume Newsletter Archive Prologue and List of Contents (pdf)
• Volume 1 Number 1 (Fall 1988) (pdf)
• Volume 1 Number 2 (Spring 1989) (pdf)
• Volume 2 Number 1 (Winter 1989-90) (pdf)
• Volume 2 Number 2 (Summer 1990) (pdf)
• Volume 3 Number 1 (Winter 1990-91) (pdf)
• Volume 3 Number 2 (Spring 1991) (pdf)
• Volume 4 Number 1 (Winter 1991-92) (pdf)
• Volume 4 Number 2 (Summer 1992) (pdf)
• Volume 5 Number 1 (Winter 1992-93) (pdf)
• Volume 5 Number 2 (Summer 1993) (pdf)
• Volume 6 Number 1 (Fall 1994) (pdf)
• Volume 6 Number 2 (Fall 1995) (pdf)
• Volume 7 Number 1 (Fall 1996) (pdf)
• Volume 7 Number 2 (Summer 1997) (pdf)
• Volume 8 Number 1 (Summer 1999) (pdf)
• Volume 8 Number 2 (Fall 2000) (pdf)
• Volume 9 Number 1 (Winter 2001-02) (pdf)
• Volume 9 Number 2 (2002) (pdf)
• Volume 10 (Final Issue) (pdf)

Books Posted Online

• Essays on Northrop Frye (2011) Robert D. Denham (pdf)
• Northrop Frye and Critical Method (1978) Robert D. Denham
• Critical Discourse: A Survey of Contemporary Literary Theorists (1988) Robert de Beaugrande (his chapter on Frye is here.)

Previously Unpublished Material

• Elizabeth Fraser’s Correspondence to Frye, 1936-37 (posted 25 December 2009)
• Two Previously Unpublished Letters from Frye to Helen Kemp, 1940, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 3 May 2010)
• Frye-Welch Correspondence, 1968-1970, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 20 September 2010)

Reviews of Northrop Frye’s Books

• Head Note (pdf)
• Anatomy of Criticism (pdf)
• Creation and Recreation (pdf)
• The Educated Imagination (pdf)
• Fables of Identity (pdf)
• Fearful Symmetry (pdf)
• Fools of Time (pdf)
• The Great Code (pdf)
• The Modern Century (pdf)
• Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature (pdf)
• Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (pdf)
• A Natural Perspective (pdf)
• The Return of Eden (pdf)
• A Study of English Romanticism (pdf)
• The Secular Scripture (pdf)
• Spiritus Mundi (pdf)
• The Stubborn Structure (pdf)
• Words with Power (pdf)
• The Well Tempered Critic (pdf)

Reviews of Books and Journal issues on Northrop Frye

• Review of the University of Toronto Quarterly’s Special Issue on Frye

Class Notes & Exams

• Class Notes Census (posted 25 December 2009)
• 0. Front Matter: Student Notes from Northrop Frye’s Courses (1947-55)
• 1. Religious Knowledge (4th year) 1947-48, Gayfer and Stingle (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 2. Religious Knowledge (1st year) 1951-52, Allen Bentley (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• Religious Knowledge Exam Questions (posted 21 October 2012)
• 3. William Blake, 1948-49, Ross Beharriell (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 4. Spenser & Milton (English 3j) 1952, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 5. Spenser & Milton (English 3j) late 1940s, Gordon Wood (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 6. Milton (English 3j) 1953-54, Peter Evans (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 7. Spenser & Milton (Renaissance Epic: English 3j) 1953-54, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 8. English Literature 1500-1660 (English 2i) 1952-53, Peter Evans (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 9. English Poetry & Prose (English 2i) 1951, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 10. The Novel (English 3l) 1952, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 11. The Novel (English 3l) 1953-54, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 12. Modern Poetry (English 4m) 1954, Peter Evans (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 13. Modern Poetry (English 4m) 1954, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 14. Nineteenth-Century  Thought (English 4k) 1954-55, Margaret Virany (PDF) (posted 23 September 2012)
• 15. Literary Criticism (Greek and Latin Literature), 1954, Margaret Virany (PDF)  (posted 23 September 2012)

Robert Denham’s Introductions to Editions of the Collected Works

• Introduction to CW 1-2, Frye-Kemp Correspondence (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 3, Student Essays (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 5-6, Late Notebooks (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 8, Diaries (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 10, Literature and Society (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 13, Bible Notebooks (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction CW 22, Anatomy of Criticism (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction CW 23, Anatomy Notebooks (posted 5 January 2010)
• Introduction to CW 25, Fictional and Miscellaneous Writings (posted 5 January 2010)

Study Guides & Summaries

• Study Guide for The Educated Imagination, Tom Willard (posted 20 December 2009)
• Some Notes and Questions on The Educated Imagination, Bob Denham (posted 21 December 2009)
• Summary of The Secular Scripture, Joe Adamson (posted 20 December 2009)
• Frye on Metaphor: An Outline of “The Expanding World of Metaphor”, Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• An Outline of The Double Vision, Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• Clayton Chrusch’s summary of Fearful Symmetry Chapter 1
• Clayton Chrusch’s summary of Fearful Symmetry Chapter 2
• Clayton Chrusch’s summary of Fearful Symmetry Chapter 3
• Clayton Chrusch’s summary of Fearful Symmetry Chapter 4
• Clayton Chrusch’s summary of Fearful Symmetry Chapter 5
• More to Come

Papers and Lectures About Frye

• Who Is This Guy Frye? Delivered to Victoria College Students, by Bob Denham (posted 28 January 2010)
• The Significance of “Beyond” in Frye’s Visionary Poetics. Delivered at Victoria College, January 2005, by Bob Denham (posted 28 January 2010)
• Frye and Practical Criticism: Against the Grain, Delivered at Western Washington University, by Robert D. Denham (posted 6 March 2010)
• Northrop Frye in the Elementary Classroom, Presented at the Canadian Literature Symposium on Northrop Frye, by Glenna Sloan (posted 28 March 2010)
• Translating into Hungarian, Paper read at the conference ‘Canada in Eight Tongues’ organized by the Central European Association for Canadian Studies and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, October 21-22, 2011, by Péter Pásztor
• Northrop Frye and Public Libraries, presented by Robert D. Denham at Moncton Public Library, Moncton, New Brunswick, 13 July 2012
• What’s a Meta for?, The Reynolds Lecture for 2012, presented at Emory & Henry College by Robert D. Denham, 28 March 2012
• Frye and Colin Still,  paper delivered at “Educating the Imagination: A Conference in Honour of Northrop Frye on the Centenary of His Birth,” by Robert D. Denham, October 4th – 6th 2012, Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
• The Paradisal Pole: A Frygean Perspective on European Irony, presented at the international Frye-conference in Budapest (“Northrop Frye: 100 — A Danubian Perspective,” September 7-8, Budapest), by Sára Tóth.
  

Audio, Video and Various Images of Frye

• Images of Northrop Frye, collected by Bob Denham (posted 1 March 2010)
• More to Come

Norrie Stories

• Holly Down (posted 25 December 2009)
• Margaret Atwood (posted 25 December 2009)
• More to Come

The Complete Bob Denham Doggerel on Frye

• Frye Doggerel (posted 25 December 2009)

Miscelleneous Compilations

• Frygiana, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• Adjectives for “Frye”, Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• Selected Poems About Frye, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• Annotations in Frye’s Books, Bob Denham (posted 25 December 2009)
• Thou Art That: Woollylamb Hormone, Northcote Fricassee, and Chap Named Denim, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 8 March 2010)
• Frye on Bardo, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 25 July 2010)
• Frye on Chess, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 25 July 2010)
• Frye on Islam and the Koran, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 26 September 2010)
• Frye on Islam and the Koran II, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 28 May 2011)
• A Little Chrestomathy of Frye on Sci-Fi, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 11 October 2010)
• Frye in Chinese, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 16 October 2010)
• Is Northrop Frye a Sun-Myth? transcribed by Bob Denham (posted 9 December 2010)
• Frye and the Movies, compiled by Bob Denham (posted 11 December 2010)

Student Essays About or Involving Frye

• Coming Soon