Contents

Preface

Credits

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 What Has Become of Conversation?

2 On Human Values

3 University

4 Literary Trends of the Twentieth Century

5 The Voice and the Crowd

6 Breakthrough

7 Style and Image in the Twentieth Century

8 Dix Ans avant la Neo-critique

9 B.K. Sandwell

10 Engagement and Detachment

11 L’Anti-McLuhan

12 Student Protest Movement

13 CRTC Guru

14 The Only Genuine Revolution

15 The Limits of Dialogue

16 “There Is Really No Such Thing As Methodology”

17 Into the Wilderness

18 The Magic of Words

19 Two Heretics: Milton and Melville

20 Notes on a Maple Leaf

21 The Canadian Imagination

22 Poets of Canada: 1920 to the Present

23 On Evil

24 Blake’s Cosmos

25 Science Policy and the Quality of Life

26 Modern Education

27 Symmetry in the Arts: Blake

28 Harold Innis: Portrait of a Scholar

29 Easter

30 Impressions

31 CRTC Hearings

32 Canadian Voices

33 Sacred and Secular Scriptures

34 Education, Religion, Old Age

35 The Future Tense

36 “A Literate Person Is First and Foremost an Articulate Person”

37 The Education of Mike McManus

38 An Eminent Victorian

39 Between Paradise and Apocalypse

40 Frye’s Literary Theory in the Classroom: A Panel Discussion

41 Getting the Order Right

42 Tradition and Change in the College

43 The New American Dreams over the Great Lakes

44 Four Questions for Northrop Frye

45 “I Tried to Shatter the Shell of Historicism”

46 The Wisdom of the Reader

47 Identity and Myth

48 Literature in Education

49 Northrop Frye: Signifying Everything

50 The Critical Path

51 Regionalism in Canada

52 Canadian Energy: Dialogues on Creativity

53 From Nationalism to Regionalism: The Maturing of Canadian Culture

54 Commemorating the Massey Lectures

55 Marshall McLuhan

56 Storytelling

57 A Fearful Symmetry

58 Medium and Message

59 Scientist and Artist

60 The Art of Bunraku

61 On The Great Code (I)

62 Chatelaine’s Celebrity I.D.

63 On The Great Code (II)

64 Towards an Oral History of the University of Toronto

65 Back to the Garden

66 On The Great Code (III)

67 Maintaining Freedom in Paradise

68 On The Great Code (IV)

69 Making the Revolutionary Act New

70 Visualization in Reading

71 Hard Times in the Ivory Tower

72 Frye at the Forum

73 The Scholar in Society

74 Inventing a Music: MacMillan and Walter in the Past and Present

75 Criticism after Anatomy

76 Richard Cartwright and the Roots of Canadian Conservatism

77 Les Lecteurs doivent manger le livre

78 The Darkening Mirror: Reflections on the Bomb and Language

79 Music in My Life

80 Books as Counter-Culture

81 The Primary Necessities of Existence

82 Criticism in Society

83 On the Media

84 The Great Test of Maturity

85 Archetype and History

86 Moncton, Mentors, and Memories

87 William Blake: Prophet of the New Age

88 Morningside Interview on Shakespeare

89 Love of Learning

90 Frye, Literary Critic

91 On The Great Code (V)

92 On The Great Code (VI)

93 On Education

94 Schools of Criticism (I)

95 William Morris

96 What Is the Purpose of Art?

97 Canadian Writers in Italy

98 The Great Teacher

99 Canadian and American Values

100 Nature and Civilization

101 Second Marriage

102 Northrop Frye in Conversation

103 “Condominium Mentality” in CanLit

104 Modified Methodism

105 Family Stories

106 Imprint Interview

107 Stevens and the Value of Literature

108 Time Fulfilled

109 Schools of Criticism (II)

110 Cultural Identity in Canada

111 The Final Interview

Appendix A: Other Films Featuring Northrop Frye

Appendix B: Interviews Written in Discursive Form

Appendix C: Lost, Unavailable, or Untraced Interviews and Discussions

Notes

Index