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A nice observation from Peter Yan:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Frye used the musical term mode<\/em> to describe and order the character\u2019s power in relation to us readers; and how these modes change over time, giving us, in the first chapter of Anatomy of Criticism<\/em>, how a genuine historical method should work in literature.<\/p>\n

What is curious is that the ultimate myth\/genre for Frye was the Quest Romance<\/a>, which he assigned the key signature of C<\/a>, the key which all keys can be translated into, and the key which all modes musical take off from. The Quest Romance myth is the mode which includes all the other myths in its epic form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nice observation from Peter Yan: Frye used the musical term mode to describe and order the character\u2019s power in relation to us readers; and how these modes change over time, giving us, in the first chapter of Anatomy of Criticism, how a genuine historical method should work in literature. 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