It is astonishing how little attention critics have paid to story considered in itself.

There are indeed three notable exceptions.

Aristotle, in the Poetics, constructed a theory of Greek tragedy, which puts story in the centre,

and relegates character to strictly a subordinate place.

In the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Bokachio and others developed an allegorical

theory of story to explain the ancient myths.

And in our own time, Jung and his followers have produced their doctrine of archetypes.

Apart from these three attempts, the subject has been left almost untouched.

This is Pints with Jack, season seven, episode 13, Lewisian literary theory and Northrop Fry. After Hours

with Angelina Stanford.

Welcome to Pites for Jack, the podcast where we read through the works of C.S. Lewis.

And today is an after-hours episode.

And today we're going to be talking about C.S. Lewis's literary theory and looking at a man with whom you might not be that familiar, Northrop Fry.

Guiding us through this is one of the hosts of one of my favorite podcasts,

The Literary Life Podcasts.

We've had her husband, the mysterious Mr. Banks on the show before, to talk about poetry,

but today I'm joined by the no less mysterious, fascinating Angelina Stanford.

Angelina Stanford has a master's degree in English

literature from the University of Louisiana. For 30 years, she shared her passion, enthusiasm for

literature with students in a variety of settings, everywhere from university classrooms to homeschool

co-ops to homeschooling her own three children. In 2020, she and her husband, Thomas Banks, founded the House of Humane Letters,

providing classes, conferences, and other resources devoted to recovering the lost intellectual

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