Eminent Northrop Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection
between Frye and twelve writers who influenced his thinking but about
whom he didn't write anything expansive. Denham draws especially on
Frye's notebooks and other previously unpublished texts, now available
in the Collected Works of Frye. Such varied thinkers as Aristotle,
Lewis Carroll, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Tillich emerge as important
figures in defining Frye's cross-disciplinary interests. Eventually, the
twelve "Others" of the title come to represent a space occupied by
writers whose interests paralleled Frye's and helped to establish his
own critical universe.