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
business mixtures flattery
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
infinity
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.
language surrender metaphor
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.
imagination pieces educated
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
ego temptation stronger
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
literature mythology humans
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
philosophy literature mythology
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
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.
religious men anxiety
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.