Victoria University Library--Northrop Frye Collection

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About the Collection

1. Introduction to the Collection

Victoria University Library owns a comprehensive collection of Northrop Frye's published work, literary manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional writings, photographs and audiovisual materials. In 1967, the Library acquired the manuscripts of the Well-Tempered Critic and Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. More materials came into the Collection following Northrop Frye's death in 1991. The Collection is described in a Finding Aid (see below), a published Guide to the Northrop Frye Papers (1993) and in a list of books (see below) from Northrop Frye's personal library with Frye's annotations. These items form the basis for the Collected Works editorial project at the Northrop Frye Centre in Victoria University. The Library continues to collect Frye's works in translation, new Frye criticism, new editions of Frye's texts, and associated audiovisual items.

2. Accessing the Collection

There are three ways to access the collection:

2.1

University of Toronto Catalogue

Contains published items by and about Frye held in the entire University of Toronto Libraries, including items in the Frye and General collections at Victoria University Library.

2.2

Guide to the Northrop Frye Papers

A detailed finding aid for manuscript and audiovisual materials contained in the Northrop Frye fonds. A printed index to the finding aid is available in the Library.

2.3

List of Works Annotated by Frye

Contains over 2000 monographs annotated by Frye. Each annotated book has been catalogued in the University of Toronto Library Catalogue.

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Related Resources

Electronic items marked are licensed for use by members of the University of Toronto community; use by others may be restricted. Items marked

are for use in Victoria University Libraries only.

Chronology of Frye's life

The Northrop Frye Centre at Victoria University

Northrop Frye: Scholar, Critic and Humanist
An exhibition mounted at Victoria University Library, May 25 - June 28, 2002.

Northrop Frye from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Provides an overview of Frye's thinking, including a list of Frye's major published works and key works for Frye studies.

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