Word: redgauntlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard betrays the theories he elaborated in his Norton lectures, if should convey at least a small portion of their urgency. Their central subject, Romance, is what Frye means when he refers to "secular scripture." Spencer's The Faerie Queen, Sir Walter Scott's novels, such as Ivanhoe and Redgauntlet, and the fantasies of William Morris, such as Earthly Paradise and New From Nowhere, are some of the more important works of Romance, which broadly speaking, is the literary development of formulas rooted in folklore. Romance is called secular scripture in Frye's theory because of its structural similarities...
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