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...Why we should toast Northrop Frye’s 100th birthday

Consequently, Frye’s insights into literature seeped through the entire culture in ways that most people weren’t aware of. Shakespeare, Greek myths, inspirational poems and science fiction all had a place in his carefully orchestrated literary universe. But to Frye, the most dominant literary work of all was the Bible, to which attention must be paid if you hoped to understand anything at all.