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Collected Works of Northrop Frye VOLUME 23 Northrop Frye’s Notebooks for Anatomy of Criticism 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 The purpose of the edition is to make available authoritative texts of both published and unpublished works, based on an analysis and comparison of all available materials, and supported by scholarly apparatus, including annotation and introductions.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 Notebooks for Anatomy of Criticism VOLUME 23 Edited by Robert D. Denham UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © Victoria University, University of Toronto, and Robert D. Denham (preface, introduction, annotation) 2007 Printed in Canada isbn 978-0-8020-9362-2 Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Frye, Northrop, 1912–1991 Northrop Frye’s notebooks for Anatomy of criticism / edited by Robert D. Denham. (Collected works of Northrop Frye v. 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8020-9362-2 1. Criticism. 2. Frye, Northrop, 1912–1991 – Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. I. Denham, Robert D. II. Title. III. Series. pn81.f757 2007 801(cid:99).95 c2007-903006-8 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). Once more, for S.D.D. and K.E.D This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix Abbreviations and Shortened Forms xiii Introduction xvii Published and Forthcoming Notebooks xxvii Notebook 7 3 Notebook 37 113 Notebook 38 128 Notes for Anatomy of Criticism 157 Notebook 35 159 Notebook 36 205 vviiiiii IntrCodounctetinotns Notebook 18 260 Notebook 30d 300 Notebook 30e 309 Notebook 30f 318 Notebook 30g 321 Notebook 30h 324 Notebook 30i 327 Notebook 30j 330 Notebook 30k 332 Notebook 30l 335 Notebook 30o-a 341 Notebook 30q 347 Notes 351 Index 413 Preface This is the seventh and penultimate volume of Frye’s notebooks to appear in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Those unfamiliar with the form and intent of Frye’s notebooks can find those matters discussed at some length in the introductions to the volumes already published: Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (CW, 5–6), The “Third Book” Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972: The Critical Comedy (CW, 9), Northrop Frye’s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (CW, 13), Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance (CW, 15), and Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on the Renaissance (CW, 20). The notebooks in the present collection were written over the course of more than a dozen years. Frye began writing in Notebook 7 in the late 1940s and the last half of Notebook 18 dates from about 1960 and contin- ues at least two years beyond that. (He began this notebook about the time he had completed the manuscript for Anatomy of Criticism in 1956). Had my co-editor Michael Dolzani and I not decided to keep each note- book as a discrete unit, part of Notebook 18 could well have been included in The “Third Book” Notebooks. In any event, it provides a transi- tion to that volume. Most of the material in the present notebooks, how- ever, was written before 1956 and relates to Anatomy of Criticism. Because some of the notebooks are difficult to date precisely, arrang- ing them according to strict chronology is difficult. Nevertheless, I have let Notebooks 7 and 18 serve as bookends for Notebooks 37, 38, 35, and 36, which is the chronological sequence as best as can be determined. (No significance should be attached to the notebook numbers them- selves, which were simply assigned sequentially when I inventoried and catalogued the notebooks in 1992.) Between Notebooks 38 and 35 are Frye’s holograph notes for the Third Essay of Anatomy of Criticism, along
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