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"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 …"
"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 …"
"We read a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit."
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Timeline
1912
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Birth1991
Died
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