Surviving the era of ’tantrum style’ politics
John Geddes: As Trump keeps going lower, out-of-fashion theorist Northrop Frye explains all the shrieking—and even shows a way past it to democratic renewal
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Northrop Frye
On Trump’s pure ego and that ’beautiful piece of chocolate cake’
The timeless literary criticism of Northrop Frye makes sense of the president’s odd, clichéd ’tantrum style’ of public speaking
Frye saw Antony and Cleopatra’s air ’thick with information’
Making it Shakespeare’s perfect play for the 21st century
Dickens at 200: still the best we’ve got on being poor
His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force
Did Ottawa spy on Northrop Frye?
Canadian academic once targeted by RCMP Security Service because of his left-wing politics
Academic ‘crisis’ averted
A plan to dismantle Northrop Frye founded Centre for Comparative literature has been shelved--for now
‘Academic vandalism’
Proposal to shut down prestigious comparative literature program at U of T draws international rebuke