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Northrop Frye quotes about literature

Canadian Critic July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991

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We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us. Above all, we have to look at the total design of a writer's work, the title he gives to it, and the his main theme, which means his point in writing it, to understand that literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but... Northrop Frye
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell. Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye quote: "The world of literature is a world where there is no reality..."
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. Northrop Frye
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] Northrop Frye

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