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    Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking
    Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking
    Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking
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    Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking

    By Robert D. Denham

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    Eminent Northrop Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and twelve writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he didn’t write anything expansive. Denham draws especially on Frye’s notebooks and other previously unpublished texts, now available in the Collected Works of Frye. Such varied thinkers as Aristotle, Lewis Carroll, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Tillich emerge as important figures in defining Frye’s cross-disciplinary interests. Eventually, the twelve “Others” of the title come to represent a space occupied by writers whose interests paralleled Frye’s and helped to establish his own critical universe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Ottawa Press
    Release dateAug 20, 2015
    ISBN9780776623092
    Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking
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    Robert D. Denham

    Robert D. Denham is John P. Fishwick Professor of English, Emeritus, at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Before that he was Professor of English and Chair of the department at Emory & Henry College, and in the mid-1980s he served as Director of English Programs and Director of the Association of Departments of English for the Modern Language Association in New York City. Denham received his M.A. in religion and art and his Ph.D. in English (with honors) from the University of Chicago. He has devoted much of his professional life to writing about Northrop Frye and editing his work.

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