Drawing on Giambattista Vico and William Blake, Frye recognizes that literary structures develop from ancient poetic and mythological archetypes and share some of their formal preoccupations and qualities. In particular, he identifies the Bible as the source of the mythological framework for Western literature. … However, his general points about mythological structures as well as some of the formal features he identifies serve to open a different way of looking at Minaret, one that acknowledges continuities among Christian, Islamic, and secular narrative paradigms.

XREF: Connects to Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism and comparative sacred-narrative frameworks that could bridge Christian and Islamic literary traditions.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 502