I have, for the entire semester, and semesters past, been really impressed with Sarah's blog. Sarah always seems to weave incredible humor and thoughtfulness throughout her blogs. Her blog is consistently one of my 'usual suspects' that I check up on and drawn inspiration from.
One of her more recent blogs about Frye's Words With Power was particularity insightful and has geared me up to start reading my copy -which I just received.
Now I would recommend everyone to read this blog in full, but one of her central paragraphs does well to convey what took most to heart:
So... Frye, in an extensively rationalized way, undoubtedly common to his mode of thought, is attempting to outline the Bible as myth and metaphor while simultaneously critiquing its influence on Western literature, and also bringing in another irresistable element of the critic in applying it to the themes and images which drive commonly studied poets, artists, what have you, and why it is that these poets are so "popular". If that is completely off key, I suppose, according to the Bible, I should be punished for "raising a false report." (Exodus 23:1)
this is a really great example of a well realized blog, it drives me to start reading Frye and participate in the conversation. It speaks to the un-read, the well read and the eager to.
so thank you for this, and all the gary larson.
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