Quotes by 'Northrop Frye'

Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye, CC FRSCwas a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century...

world messages hell

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

philosophy literature mythology

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

space centre

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

literature

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

poetic literal primaries

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

egypt law israel

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

teaching literature impossible

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

loss thinking identity

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

reading incomplete incompetent

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

supremacy

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

dream feelings revolutionary

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

fables tortoises tire

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

firsts study structure

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

imagination situation rhetorical

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.