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Northrop Frye quotes

Canadian Critic July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991

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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
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. Northrop Frye
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye
It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21) Northrop Frye
The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world and the world that is really there become the same thing. [p.211] Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye quote: "We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create..."
We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye quote: "Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Northrop Frye

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