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It is often forgotten that Northrop Frye, a scholar known chiefly for his books and articles, was also a gifted speaker who was never reluctant to be interviewed. This collection of 111 interviews and discussions with the critic assembles all of those published or broadcast on radio or television. Also included among the interviews are a number of conversations not generally known, many of them transcribed from tapes gathered from personal collections. Interviews with Northrop Frye aims to provide another view of the famous literary critic, one that supplements that which is often obtained from reading his printed works. Ranging from the earliest interviews in 1948 to discussions that took p...
Maya Herman In Search of The Silk King A Novel Among many stories I heard in Southeast Asia, the most fascinating is the story of the legendary American “silk king” of Thailand – Jim Thompson. It is as mysterious as Asia itself. The name Jim Thompson seemed to follow me from the first moment I arrived in Bangkok. The more stories and rumors I heard, the more I became fascinated by them. They had all the ingredients of a good novel or a major movie – romance, mystery, glamour, exotic locations, and more. The legend of the “silk king” and his disappearance remains as mysterious today as it was in 1967. No clues were ever found. Only unanswered questions remained. Using poetic licen...
This international collection of contemporary poetry contains poems in English as well as in the respective mother tongues from 51 poets and poetesses from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Seychelloise, Serbia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and the United States of America.
The Global Literary Society seeks to create a global wave of Positive Literature highlighting the humanitarian values of world peace, nonviolence, universal empathy, unconditional love and compassion, gender equality, justice, human rights while transcending all the boundaries of caste, colour, class, creed, race, region, religion and nations for building an ecosystem of World Peace, Progress and Prosperity for one and all. Humanity is suffering from rampant global negativity which is a big cause of violence, hatred and intolerance. GLS motivates every member to be a "Change Maker" for a better world to clean up the global collective consciuosness from NEGATIVITY, therefore, the GLSians must strive to write living letters of love and light and become "LITERARY ACTIVIST". This international anthology of poems titled "Peace Makers" is such an effort to call upon the global fraternity of poets to write the "living letters" for advancing the cause and mission of Global Positive Literature Movement of Global Literary Society.
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"Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of the Romantic period, but of the Renaissance. As such, Frye's meditations on the Renaissance are particularly valuable. This volume collects six of Frye's notebooks and five sets of his typed notes on subjects related to Renaissance literature." "Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masqu...
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