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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance

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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance - Frye, Northrop
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Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance thus forms an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling sacred scripture whose hero is God.

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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance 1978, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674796768

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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance 1973, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674796751

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