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
stories literature sun
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.
writing aphorism translate
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
heart centre humans
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
war men young
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
writing looks use
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.
literature mythology humans
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
loss thinking identity
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
nature discovery order
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
egypt law israel
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
art law elements
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
teaching literature impossible
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
world messages hell
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
writing may attributes
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.