Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[Dave Williams]

from Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.
            In the form in which we possess it, most of [European fiction] has already moved into the category of romance.  Romance divides into two main forms: a secular form dealing with chivalry and knight-errantry, and a religious form devoted to legends of saints.  Both lean heavily on miraculous violations of natural law for their interest as stories. (34)


      
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