Dr. Tolomeo's remark [that Professor Frye's approach to the Bible as myth "will undoubtedly be offensive to some"] belongs, I suspect, to that interesting category of self-evident truths which it is the duty of every responsible academic either to ignore, or to attempt to change.
Read MoreThe expansion of the Siena duomo was interrupted by a sudden historical catastrophe; one may wonder whether what Dolzani calls the "evolutionary narrative" of Northrop Frye's ogdoad project was in a more gradual manner blocked by a growing awareness on Frye's part of contradictions between the historical metanarrative of his project and the movement of late twentieth-century history [...].
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