Northrop Frye
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Sep 11, 2026
Sherry DragovichHOST
And this comes from one of the books that we've read or are reading in prepping for Harry Potter series.
Sherry DragovichHOST
And then also that person, that author references the literary critic Northrop Frye, who wrote in the 50s.
Sherry DragovichHOST
And he wrote extensively about ways into literary criticism, which is a fancy word for how to think about, write about criticism.
Sherry DragovichHOST
talk about a literary work or a genre of literary works right literary stuff in general right and he likened he made the connection of um discussing literature in the ways of the medievals.
Sherry DragovichHOST
So... we're going to play with that.
Sherry DragovichHOST
Yeah.
Sherry DragovichHOST
We're going to play with those four and I'm going to be using a lot of, um, Northrop Frye's, um, uh, his essays on this as a way to springboard our own sort of imaginative way.
Rae ForneyHOST
I love that.
Gil RothHOST
The one guy is a poet he knew in college and beyond.
Gil RothHOST
Another guy is Northrop Frye, who's like a literary critic he was obsessed with.
Gil RothHOST
They're different Blooms.
Gil RothHOST
You know, they're different people writing to the different recipients.
KozlowskiHOST
And again, there are Blake scholars who will fight tooth and nail for this guy, and they're not just like, you know, Johnny-come-latelys or weirdos or crackpots.
KozlowskiHOST
Several of the greatest scholars in the history of literary criticism, folks like Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye, have made really, really potent arguments.
KozlowskiHOST
Like, they will absolutely die on this hill for William Blake.
KozlowskiHOST
Northrop Frye, even on the back of our textbook, is quoted as saying that, like, he is one of the most, uh, well, it's not in the back of the textbook.
KozlowskiHOST
I know it's somewhere in our textbook.
KozlowskiHOST
Um, probably in the introduction somewhere.
KozlowskiHOST
Uh, Northrop Frye is quoted as saying that he is the most underrated of the great, like, literary figures in all of British literature.
KozlowskiHOST
And I know why he says that.
speaker_0HOST
probably right like neck and neck with the frog and toad essay but um this definitely involved kind of collates a lot more um reading and research and thinking um like over the years But I'm going to lean more heavily on the reading than on the commentary, but I might find it necessary to footnote a little bit.
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This would be a good, if you've just recently listened to the Northrop Frye episodes that I've done, this actually would be a good follow-up to those because it deals with Frye as well, which this was written years ago, so there was no, that's just kind of serendipitous.
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And I know that some people came to Patreon, you know, and they, through the podcast, and you mainly probably, as interested in just reading an article or something.
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So this may be your first, you may not have read this yet and it may be better to listen to it.
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So here we go.
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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
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Northrop Frye
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write like neck and neck with the frog and toad essay but um this definitely involved kind of collates a lot more um reading and research and thinking um like over the years But I'm going to lean more heavily on the reading than on the commentary, but I might find it necessary to footnote a little bit.
speaker_0HOST
This would be a good, if you've just recently listened to the Northrop Frye episodes that I've done, this actually would be a good follow-up to those because it deals with Frye as well, which this was written years ago, so there was no, that's just kind of serendipitous.
speaker_0HOST
And I know that some people came to Patreon, you know, and they, through the podcast, and you mainly probably know as interested in just reading an article or something.
speaker_0HOST
So this may be your first, you may not have read this yet and it may be better to listen to it.
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Literature
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is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
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Northrop Frye
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Mark DriscollHOST
And so here are what the scholars say about the story.
Mark DriscollHOST
Northrop Frye from the University of Toronto says, Exodus is the definitive deliverance and the type of all redemption stories.
Mark DriscollHOST
In addition, Mary Sternberg from Tel Aviv University says, few narratives in world literature match the Exodus account.
Mark DriscollHOST
In addition, Michael Walzer from Princeton says, the Exodus is a big story that became part of the cultural consciousness of the West so that a range of political events have been located and understood within the narrative frame that it provides.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
Uh, Stanley Fish was one of them.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
He hated the new criticism, hated Northrop Frye, hated all those people because they were crypto, it was crypto Christianity.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And, and as I said, they were right because the new criticism was basically sola scriptura, except it's now applied to a poem, not to the Bible.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
So every man had the right to interpret the poem as he saw fit.
Angelina StanfordHOST
Sure.
Angelina StanfordHOST
I've got a good old Northrop Frye quote.
Angelina StanfordHOST
Um, our, uh, my newest round of fellows at the, uh, House of Humane Letters Literary Fellowship that I, that I run, we are just launching our new, start of a new two-year program.
Angelina StanfordHOST
And, um, the air this, the day this drops, this episode airs, will be our first meeting, and we are starting off reading an essay by Northrop Frye called Levels of Meaning.
Angelina StanfordHOST
It's essentially a modern summary of a medieval understanding of literature.
Angelina StanfordHOST
Anyway, this sentence, I think is, is interesting and will fit what we were just talking about.
CaseyHOST
Okay.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
I asked you to do this because I've been trying to finish some other stuff today, including reading Northrop Frye on literary criticism.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
So we've got some more fodder to come into our storytelling.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
Tell us... what you learned about liberty from wrestling with john stuart mills 1859 pamphlet
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Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
Mill.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
We still have Pope to go, right? We can always be coming back to Pope.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
I'm reading right now, I'm almost finished with Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, and I am happy to report that we are hitting so many of his registers in writing Draco Alchemicus.
Rachel Fulton BrownHOST
We are on target to write At least something that should be recognized as literature.
BenHOST
[laughs] Uh, now some of these characters sound like real characters, and some of these characters sound like caricatures, and this is a element of romance that I wanna draw our attention to.
BenHOST
Um, so shout out to Black Casebook Walt, who used Northrop Frye to talk about romance in his excellent Dark Knight Returns episode.
BenHOST
This is from Northrop Frye.
BenHOST
Um, "The characterization of romance follows this general dialectical structure, which means that subtlety and complexity are not much favored.
BenHOST
[laughs] Characters tend to be either for or against the quest.
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BenHOST
So John, did you know that, that, uh, there being a giant storm is one of the features of romance? [laughs]
JohnHOST
[laughs] Absolutely.
BenHOST
And there's a giant storm at the end of this, uh, which I didn't know until I read the Northrop Frye, uh, bit about romance from Anatomy of Criticism, which I think is relevant here.
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