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...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth14 July 1912
CitySherbrooke, Canada
CountryCanada
Northrop Frye quotes about
infinity
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.
imagination pieces educated
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
imagination situation rhetorical
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
superstitions benefits kind
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
imagination world anything-goes
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
copying made novel
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
fundamentals literature speech
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]