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Download (6MB) https://theses.gla.ac.uk/ Theses Digitisation: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/research/enlighten/theses/digitisation/ This is a digitised version of the original print thesis. Copyright and moral rights for this work are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This work cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Enlighten: Theses https://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] The Liberalism o f Northrop Frye by Brian Russell Graham Ph.D. Thesis University of Glasgow Department of English Literature Submission Date: May 2007 ProQuest Number: 10390739 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10390739 Published by ProQuest LLO (2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLO. ProQuest LLO. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.Q. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 GLASGOW ' üNivERsrrv CLIBRARV; Abstract My thesis is a study of the liberalism of Nortlirop Frye. Frye believes that the process of matching an idea with its opposite effects a transcendence whereby ‘an adversary relationship’ is resolved ‘not by reconciling both sides but by breaking clear of the antithesis into a new level’ (NFLN6, p. 622), and this observation is deeply suggestive of the nature of Frye’s liberal thinking. In my thesis I argue that Frye’s liberalism is characterised by ‘the dialectic’: it represents a transcendence of the Left-Right opposition. Part I covers Frye’s writings throughout the fifties, sixties and seventies. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 I consider the tliree topics that dominate Frye’s work in this period: the poetry of William Blake, secular ‘imaginative’ literature, and education and work. Frye’s thinking, I argue, is a thoroughly liberal one because dialectical, in each case an attempt to transcend oppositional thinking. In Chapter 5 I go on to discuss Fiye’s desire to go beyond Left and Right in the political arena. Frye developed as a critic of culture, politics, society - and literature in relation to all of those against the backdrop of the Cold War, and his theory of politics is one which seeks to go beyond both what he terms ‘laissez faire’ and Communism. hi Part n the focus shifts to Frye’s work in the second half of the twentieth century. In Chapter 6 I return to Blake, secular literature and the university, giving an account of the radicals’ view of these aspects of culture, before discussing Frye’s attitude to the new cultural radicalism, which takes the form of a reassertion of his liberal thinking. In Chapter 7 I turn to Frye’s consideration of the Bible, seeking to throw light on his liberal thinking within this context. Though Frye is not working against a clearly ‘political’ divide within this field, he is, I explain, still seaiching for a liberal ideal, and thinking dialectically. At this time Frye also returned to political issues, providing a second statement of his views of global politics, and I conclude this chapter with an account of Frye’s attitude to the new unconstrained capitalism, where his attitude is decidedly liberal and dialectical once more. My thesis also offers an overarching examination of Fiye’s liberalism, brought out in Chapters 4 and 7. The terminus ad quern of Frye’s secular thinking is the three ideals of the French revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity. At the end of his career Frye turns systematically to Christianity and the Cliristian Bible. Like Blake, Frye sees no contradiction in such a combination of cultures. Indeed, his liberalism, I argue, is a matter of the combination of a liberal attitude to culture and a liberal approach to Scripture and Christianity. My thesis concludes with an Epilogue, in which I stand back and consider the larger historical context of Fiye’s liberal thinking, his ‘liberal’ literary criticism in particular. Contents 1. Introduction Part 1: Aspects of Frye’s Liberal Thinking 2. Frye’s Theory of Blake’s Poetry 3. Frye’s Theory of Secular Literature 4. Frye’s Theory of Education and Work 5. Beyond Left and Right; Frye’s Politics Part 2: The New Left and Frye’s Defence of His Theoretical Thinking; His Liberal Thinking Continued 6. The Rise of the Cultural Left in North America and Frye’s Defence of His Theoretical Thinking 7. Fiye’s Theory of the Bible, and His View of Post-Cold War Period Epilogue List of Short Titles. Works by Northrop Frye AC : Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957) CP : The Critical Path (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973) E l : The Educated Imagination (Toronto; Canadian Broadcasting Corp 1963) FI : Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World 1963) FS : Fearful Symmetry: A Study o f William Blake (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1947) GC : The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982) MC : The Modern Century (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967) MM : Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-1988, ed. by Robert D. Denliam (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990) NFLS : Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, ed. by Robert D. Denham, Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 10 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) NFR ; Northrop Frye on Religion, ed. by Alvin A. Lee and Jean O’Grady, Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) NFSE : Northrop Frye’s Student Essays 1932-1938, ed. by Robert D. Denham, Collected Works of Northrop Fiye, Volume 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997) NFWE : Northrop Frye’s Writings on Education, ed. by Jean O’Grady and Goldwin French, Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) NFLS : Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers, ed. by Robert D. Denham, Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 10 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) SR : A Study o f English Romanticism (New York: Random House, 1968) SS : The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure o f Romance (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1976) SM : Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976) StSt : The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1970) WTC : The Well-Tempered Critic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963) WWP : Words With Power: Being a Second Study o f the Bible and Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990) 1. Introduction Frye Studies Today The present time is a vibrant one for Frye studies. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, being published by the University of Toronto Press, is precipitating a transformation of the field. Based on the large collection of Frye’s papers in the Pratt Library of Victoria University, the Collected Works is providing us with scholarly editions of all of Frye’s works, with a total of thirty-one volumes planned. The publication of these volumes means that for the first time Frye scholars have easy access to all of his writings, including his previously unpublished work. ‘Frye was not just a prolific writer,’ explain Boyd and Salusinsky, ‘but a prolific jotter as well, and after his death in 1991 he left behind thousands of pages of notebooks, diaries, and letters.’^ And some of the first volumes to appear include much previously unpublished material. These scholarly editions have already stimulated new directions in Frye studies, certain aspects of which stand out as especially noteworthy. Above all, readings of the notebooks by Frye scholars have had a profound effect on our view of Frye, for they alter our perception of his career to a considerable degree. We now know, for example, from the notebooks that he worked on a ‘third book’ between the late fifties and early seventies which would have served as a follow-up to Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy o f Criticism. In his authoritative essay on the subject, ‘The Book of the Dead’, Michael Dolzani describes the scope of the proposed study: At its heart was a diagram, meditated in numerous forms over two decades but never ultimately published, called the Great Doodle - ^Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works, ed. by David Boyd and Imre Salusinszky (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), p. xx. Further references are abbreviated to RF and incorporated parenthetically within the text. though we can call it the cycle of mythoi for solemnity’s sake. It developed out of the cycle of mythoi in the Third Essay of Anatomy, but differs in two ways. Fhst, it is what Fiye would have called the thematic stasis of the Third Essay, taking its hero’s-quest circular narrative and spatializing it into four quadrants which he called topoi, by which he means to evoke ‘particularly their literal sense as "places’” (NB19, 343). However, since ‘his soil is man’s mtelligence,’ in Stevens’ phrase, each landscape, each ‘place,’ becomes the locus of an interconnected set of themes and thematic images, often lyric- centred.
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