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Harold Innis and the Writing of History by Graeme Patterson

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On Being Canadian by Rudy Wiebe

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New Book Review

Seeing Through Our Eyes

Northrop Frye (Author)

Words with Power: Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature". Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 26. University of Toronto Press

Alberto Manguel (Author)

The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'incontournable cécité d'Homère). Goose Lane Editions

Eva Kushner (Editor), Jean O'Grady (Editor)

The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975: Collected Works of Northrop Frye Vol. 27. University of Toronto Press

Reviewed by Graham Forst

The three books under review here are about the difference between eyesight and vision-about how, so to speak, what an oculist is to one, the poet is to the other. We are, says Frye in Words With Power (1991: republished here as volume 26 of CWNF), "blind" to the truth of the Bible because we read it with rather than through our eyes; as a result, its "visionary" spirit turns into the dead letter of history and dogma, and what should enlarge, instea [...]

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