The Secular Scripture A Study of the Structure of Romance |
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Author:
| Frye, Northrop |
Series title: | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-79676-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1978 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance thus forms an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling sacred scripture whose hero is God.
Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance thus forms an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling sacred scripture whose hero is God.