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...Hampshire country house that he heats entirely by wood. Says he: "My main occupation is splitting billets of maple and birch." Being in good shape helped on his first interview with Ronstadt, when he suddenly found himself jogging up Fifth Avenue at 10 p.m.-she in Frye boots and lynx coat, he in jacket...
ELSIEBURGERS. DIXIE CUPS and a disciple imitating David Frye imitating Nixon--these marks of contemporary and peculiarly Harvard culture strike the dominant chord of John Manulis's production of Godspell. And not unfittingly. After all, the premise of Godspell is the special contemporary relevance of the Christian message. The show's book is the Good Book, and its lyrics mostly simple exhortations to faith; but here the Word is transplanted to a junkyard where the innocents who make themselves up as Jesus' disciples cavort in patchwork splendor...
This different social development, though, is important for all of us to understand, as Frye seems to suggest when he says "true indoctrination is the real social function of literature." In other words, those few who understand how particular forms of popular literature reflect a different social development will be able to control a lot of people. In the past Romance has largely been "kidnapped," according to Frye, by the ascendant classes. But new forms always rise up out of the anonymous people. Frye concludes that the study of literature, or at least a part of it, should teach students...
...Frye's whole concept of literature, since the 1950s, tries to extract literary criticism from the kind of scholarly biases that determine what's "good" and what's "bad" on some kind of stock market of literature. He parodies the idea in Anatomy of Criticism by talking about how T.S. Eliot used to say Milton was bearish and Spenser bullish one year, and vice-versa the next. He also warns against attaching certain cultural values to particular works and therefore making them important, or parts of the "myth" of a particular society. This, anyway, is his ideal for criticism...
...important romance is to modern political ideology that most modern Chinese short stories are romances (with an underlying revolutionary message, of course). William Morris, on the other hand, a radical socialist, didn't seem to be aware of the uses of his romances to inculcate upper-class values, and Frye says that's the reason his comrades rejected...