{"id":5952,"date":"2009-12-14T19:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2009-12-14T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:41:12","slug":"our-chief-whipping-boys-will-be-harold-bloom-and-northrop-frye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/12\/14\/our-chief-whipping-boys-will-be-harold-bloom-and-northrop-frye\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our chief whipping boys will be Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5953\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5953\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/12\/K-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Klapper Hall, home of the English Department, Queens College, CUNY\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/12\/K-Hall.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/12\/K-Hall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klapper Hall, home of the English Department, Queens College, CUNY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from an online description of a course on Biblical Narrative taught at Queens College, CUNY.\u00a0 Joe and I saw it a couple of years ago but then lost track of who was responsible for it.\u00a0 Jonathan Allan recently came across it and sent it to us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This course will introduce Biblical narrative, its special characteristics, and some of the various theoretical methods that have been recently used to interpret it, primarily from the two main camps of contemporary narrative theory, the structuralist\/semiotic school descended from G\u00e9rard Genette and the rhetorical-formalist school descended from the late Wayne C. 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