Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
Background
- Born in
- Sherbrooke
- Educated at
- Merton CollegeUniversity of Toronto
- Awards
- 🏆 Pierre Chauveau Medal🏆 Molson Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Person of National Historic Significance🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"If you haven't got an excremental vision you have no business setting up as a major satirist."
"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 appro…"
"Nothing is more remarkable in the Bible than the absence of argument...Argument is internal continuity. So is logical sequence in narrative: in the Bible the connectives are just "and."
"There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity …"
"Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind."
"iterature not only leads us toward the regaining of identity, but it also separates this state from its opposite, the world we don't like and want to get away from...We have to look at the figures of …"
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1912
Born
Birth1991
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Northrop's philosophy
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Northrop's ideas
Source Attribution
Information about Northrop Frye is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled his…"
— Washington Irving"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps o…"
— W. Somerset Maugham"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily applicati…"
— Vladimir Nabokov"If time is an illusion, then all movement and change are also illusions. So the only thing that gives us th…"
— Alan Moore"I understand four manner of dreads. One is the dread of an affright that cometh to a man suddenly by frailt…"
— Julian of Norwich"Women and the Myth of Consumerism", Ramparts"
— Ellen Willis
