Reviews for X-rated equations

The average rating for X-rated equations based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-04-22 00:00:00 Bart De Ceulaer No one needs me to assert that Northrop Frye was a giant on the scale of Aristotle or William Blake but what I can add is that I felt extraordinarily loved as a student in his English classes. This shy, ordinary-looking man knew he had genius. He studied literature, the Bible, theology and education to prepare himself for a calling he privately compared to that of an Old Testament prophet. Moments of extreme lucidity, one when he read Blake's poetry and another when he sat in a chair outside the fitting room of a dress shop while his wife tried on a new outfit, gave him the key to a long-forgotten mythical and metaphorical interpretation of these works that was essential.When I attended his lectures on topics that other professors make humdrum, I felt impelled to get down every word and worry about understanding it later. If you didn't keep the train of thought, you were lost for good. He was not talking about his own theories; he was opening our minds, making us think and challenging us to be open to forming a new world view. As an author and teacher, he cared about people and his passion was to write simply so that everyone could understand his ideas and learn how to read the Bible the way it was written. To psychoanalyze my own problems arising from an overly religious Methodist upbringing similar to Frye's, I turned to his books after graduation. Reading and re-reading Fearful Symmetry, the Great Code, an Anatomy of Criticism and Words with Power freed me from my own problems not just by the impact of his over-all theory and structure but also by his quotable quotes. His most populist, shortest books are The Educated Imagination, which all first-year students at Victoria College, University of Toronto (where Frye taught) read, and The Double Vision, which is the last book Frye wrote. It is four brief chapters of lectures he gave to alumni of Emmanuel College (which he attended.) The community of Frygean scholars is active in 72 countries of the world and their online hub. In my opinion, his ideas are inspiring to every discussion about the past or the future going on in the world today.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-10 00:00:00 Elizabeth Renee Frye I've read enough Frye by now to feel that I understood little islands of this book, but I'm afraid the greater pattern was more than a bit lost on my ignorance.