[Lonergan_l] NORTHROP FRYE SOCIETY
nichola...@utoronto.ca
HAPPY TO SEND YOU THE FOLLOWING EXCITING AND IMPORTANT NEWS.
Seanson's Greetings!
Nicholas William Graham
PRESIDENT
Northrop Frye Society
nichola...@utoronto.ca
Just in time for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, we are pleased to
announce, at long last, the launch of our journal dedicated to Northrop
Frye.
We are even more pleased to announce that the journal will not be a separate
entity, as we initially planned, but will be incorporated into the blog
site: www.theeducatedimagination.com
If you look to the top of our Widgets menu to the right, you'll see the
Journal. Gaining access to it as simple as hitting the links. We are
retaining our original plan, which is to publish both "Articles of Interest"
and "Peer Reviewed Scholarship." We've posted an article just so that you
can see how it'll work. But the journal is now officially open for
business, so send your submissions to frye...@gmail.com
We are also very pleased to announce the opening of the The Robert D. Denham
Library, the first fully public virtual Northrop Frye library collection in
the world. I think you'll all agree that it is only fitting that Bob's name
be attached to it. It too has its own Widget link in the upper right of our
site menu. It will soon be filled with goodies, and, as of today it is the
permanent home for Bob's *Northrop Frye Newsletter*, the first issue of
which is now posted, so please feel free to go in and have a look. We'll
update regularly about new acquisitions and additions to our collection,
which will expand quickly in the new year.
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Mike Albertson
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Mike Albertson <mikealb...@mac.com>
> Date: December 19, 2009 5:38:16 PM EST
> To: nichola...@utoronto.ca, Lonergan <loner...@skipperweb.org>
> Subject: Re: NORTHROP FRYE SOCIETY
>
> Nicholas, I appreciate the information and wish this new project God's Blessing.
> I have not well understood your point that Frye's work somehow providing a (here i can not find an adjective that suits my thought) perhaps higher viewpoint than Lonergan was able to achieve. But, today I read the journal Method Vol. 21 Number 2 Fall 2003 the article Interiority and the Challenge for Primatology by Daniel Mayer. Then I read in a Second Collection Lonergan's essay: reflections on writing Insight.
Mayer's article refers to Lonergan's Exegesis and Dogma where he describes three distinct approaches to scriptural interpretation:relative, romantic, and classical. On page 148 of the journal Method article Mayer goes on to write ". . . However, humans are rational animals, but they are not merely rational. For the sake of simplicity we might say that, besides rational minds there is emotive psyche. Two forms of understanding coexist in us mind- discursive logical reason, and psyche- the intensity of imagination and affectivity. To characterize the classic approach, we must contrast between these two.
A first difference regards contradiction. For mind there is a principle of noncontradiction or excluded middle: either A or not A. Not for psyche:we may love and hate the same person; we may find something at once ugly and strangely beautiful; we may consider an action partly good and partly evil. A second contrast is that each supplies its own set of categories Whereas mind seeks classes and universals, psyche appeals to representative figures and metaphor.. . .Third, each propounds truth in its own particular way. . . . A fourth contrast is in the number of themes that each treats. . . .In sum while mind would seek flawless axioms and propositions, psyche thrives in hyperbole and metaphor.
> Nicholas, I am not sure that this excerpt captures anything at all of your reasons for using Frye as a corrective (is this an appropriate way of stating your aim?) And further, I am not sure that Lonergan would be anything but well aware of the distinctions drawn above. So this may be entirely off the mark. But, I am interested in better understanding your point of view.
> Merry Christmas, Mike Albertson
>> We are also very pleased to announce the opening of the The Robert D. Denham Library, the first fully public virtual Northrop Frye library collection in the world. I think you'll all agree that it is only fitting that Bob's name be attached to it. It too has its own Widget link in the upper right of our site menu. It will soon be filled with goodies, and, as of today it is the permanent home for Bob's Northrop Frye Newsletter, the first issue of which is now posted, so please feel free to go in and have a look. We'll update regularly about new acquisitions and additions to our collection, which will expand quickly in the new year.
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Nice blog, and promising journal! In addition to Mike's question, I was wondering if you could describe how the copyright to Frye's work is managed for your group?
I've always thought Lonergan's work would be more accessible (and might even sell more books) if his heirs released him to the public. Columbia supports a significantly sophisticated Dante page, for example, and even Joyce mostly is available with some advertising. Google Books is a huge contribution, although it falls short of what's possible.
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