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Northrop Frye (1912 – 1991)


Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
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Northrop Frye
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. (1:281)
Frye quotes
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
Frye
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.




Frye Northrop quotes
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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