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Nella (Caterina) Cotrupi LLB, PhD is an Italian-born Canadian writer, translator, literary critic, scholar, educator, and lawyer with a life-long passion for the literary and visual arts. Her work on Canadian critic Northrop Fry has focused on the influence of the philosopher Giambattista Vico and the social and ethical implications of their ideas.
Portrait Credit: "Nella" by Diane Williams, 2020
Books
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
https://utorontopress.com/9780802081414/northrop-frye-and-the-poetics-of-process/
Essays, Presentation
“Caravaggio’s Self Portraits: Mirroring the Modern Gaze”, January 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUc4-ZRtgg
“Fresh Eyes on Van Gogh”, Feb. 13, 2018, Hart House Dinner Series, University of Toronto
“Literature and the Bible in a Secular Age”, presented at the Toronto Public Library, April 28, 2015.
“Process and Possibility: Northrop Frye’s Spiritual Vision.” Keynote address delivered April 27, 2002 at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, Moncton. Published in Ellipse, No.69, Spring 2003.54-57. See: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/2010/04/12/nella-cotrupi-process-and-possibility-northrop-fryes-spiritual-vision/
"Verum Factum: Viconian Markers Along Frye's Path." The Legacy of Northrop Frye. Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
"Vico, Burke and Frye's Flirtation with the Sublime." Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science, Philosophy and Writing. Marcello Danesi ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
"Hyper-metafiction: Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler." Style, Vol.25, No.2, Summer 1991. 289-90.
Poems:
"Helenae Uxori," in Lemond, Edward and Cyr, Suzanne, Editors, A Giant in Time: An Anthology of Writings in Honour of Northrop Frye's 100th Birthday, Ellipse, No 87-88 Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2012.
"For Pat Lowther", in Greco, Heidi, and Jaffe, Ellen S., Editors, A Tribute to Pat Lowther, on what would have been her 75th birthday, Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus, The League of Canadian Poets, Toronto, 2011.
Book Reviews:
“The Body and the Spirit” Review of The Diaries of Northrop Frye (Volume 8 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye), Books in Canada, April 2002.
“Northrop Frye: Turning the Sacred Cow of Ideology out to Pasture” Review of Rereading Frye, ed. David V. Boyd and Imre Salusinszky, Books in Canada, May 1999.
"What Happened to Helen?" Review of The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939. Books in Canada, December 1996.