Posted on 12/30/2014 7:32:15 PM PST by gusopol3
Between 1980 and 1981 Prof. Northrop Frye held 25 lectures under the title ‘The Bible and Literature’. Each of these lectures was recorded and for each of them a transcript was provided. Later excerpts of these 25 lectures (each 50 minutes long) were made into 30 programs (each about 30 minutes). That means in some cases 1 lecture supplied material for 2 programs or the other way around.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.utoronto.ca ...
Self-ping
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If that guy isn’t the old fashioned archetype of a college professor, I don’t know who is. He looks uncomfortable; his suit is rumpled, ill-fitting, thick glasses and Trotsky-like hair.
He also - unlike professors today - is extremely well read and was a great scholar in his day on literary criticism. Never completed a PhD either.
Thanks for posting this, I had no idea Frye was ever recorded. Poor guy probably would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what had happened to his old Church (United Church of Canada).
Some of what he says is now superseded by more recent scholarship by the way. He was a man of his time.
Another self ping.
Wow! Bible ping - on steroids.
thanks
I listened to the first lecture this morning, and it is an excellent introductory lecture. There certainly are areas where an elaboration is in order, but whether it is because of more recent scholarship, a lacuna in Frye’s own knowledge (e.g. the use of the term “authentic” for the Vulgate in Catholic contexts is actually best paralleled by the King James “Authorized” than by an idea that it substitutes for the original, and that is something a good scholar of things Catholic would have known in 1980) or recent developments (I believe [with all due respect for the referent of my screen name] he overstates the present understanding of what Jerome translated with regards to the Vulgate, but I have forgotten the history of who held what when), or simply because in an introductory lecture very fine points both are lost on the students and obscure the communication of what they can be reasonably hoped to understand, I do not know. I do know that I enjoyed it very much, and look forward to the second portion.
Did you read up him because of this thread, or were you previously familiar with him?
This is terrific!
I am going to watch it one lecture at a time, so i can absorb it.
Thank you for posting it.
You’re welcome. Please come back at any time you find something good and share it. Happy New Year.
I just finished a 90 hour course in Systematic Theology online (non-credit but that’s not why I study! LOL), and I was looking for what would be my next step.
I found it!
may you have a peaceful, happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!
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