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...Northrop Frye tells a good story about how he came to teach the Bible. When he was still a junior instructor at Toronto University he talked to the chairman of his department, complaining that he wasn't able to teach his students Milton's Paradise Lost. The students weren't receptive. And he suggested teaching them the Bible instead. The chairman asked Frye how he could possibly teach students the Bible if they didn't know the difference between pharisees and philistines. Frye replied that it probably didn't make any difference considering the society they were going into...
...Frye taught the Bible, but before he started he looked at what other universities were doing with it and decided that the Bible's most important contribution is its impact as a unity upon the imagination. The unified impact of all literature is essentially the central message--if there is a central message--to the body of Frye's critical works. Maybe it's easier to understand with one work. In one of his essays, Frye speaks of a certain special moment in reading a work of literature when we no longer simply participate in the action but begin...
...Frye's lectures and books always seem to have these same lightning-like points of recognition in them, too--moments when the whole dark night of everything you've ever read and remembered becomes illuminated, moments when the development of his immediate argument coalesces into a perceptible theory. But with a little more thought his overall system fades and it becomes apparent that there's a lot more participation to go and that maybe the point of recognition is never meant to be reached...
...crit mogul (who has finally managed to have himself translated from Bristol to Cambridge University) will speak in the Winthrop House JCR the day after school begins, April 8 at 8 p.m. The title of Ricks's lecture--seriously--is "Five Songs by Bob Dylan." Rumor has it Northrop Frye, in response, is considering adding a coda to his Norton Lectures on "The Secular Scripture" to be called "Myths of Ascent and Descent in 'Lay, Lady, Lay'." Such rumors, though, like so many scriptures themselves, may well be apocryphal...
Before Fisher cooked that red snapper or walked through Brattle Square that Friday afternoon he had been doing other things that characterize him better, if only because he left them. That morning he had been in Northrop Frye's course on the typology of the Bible--hence the Bible under his right arm--and the day before he had been at work on a wooden creation he calls a sculpture--hence...