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Northrop Frye

Jiang adopts a Northrop Frye-style pattern: great literature often emerges when a nation or coherent people becomes an empire and gains a cosmopolitan vista.

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Jiang adopts a Northrop Frye-style pattern: great literature often emerges when a nation or coherent people becomes an empire and gains a cosmopolitan vista.

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Islam As Proto-Modernity

2025-03-11, day precision · Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam

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"Right. Yeah. That's a great point. So let me elaborate on this point. So there's a literary critic Norfolk Fry. Right? Yep. Canadian. Right?..."

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