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Northrop Frye's First Essay

Northrop Frye's First Essay

Bringing it all together Let's do a brief recap. First, I described Northrop Frye's model of stories as a phase space. A phase space describes all possible states of a system through time. You can build one up by seeing how one thing changes into another
Benjamin Espen Jan 26, 2024

Lysistrata as a Comedy

One of the things that I love about Twitter is that if you are prudent about who you follow, you can find some of the most remarkable information about history, archaeology, literature, and other complex topics, often posted pseudonymously. Case in point, this thread on Lysistrata by Aristophanes Skinner Box.
Benjamin Espen May 4, 2022

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