Northrop Frye, the Canadian literary theorist, critic and educator who was noted for his systematic and erudite studies of myth and symbolism.
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Northrop Frye, inspired by the poet William Blake, demands that the critic take part in a “mental fight,” articulating the liberating value of literature.
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. by Northrop Frye. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 261 pp. $14.95. Serious reading of the Bible is not an occasional...
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Northrop Frye, in his mid‐sixties. has earned the reputation of being the leading theoretician of literary criticism among all those writing in English today.
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With the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death approaching, remembering how Northrop Frye saw Antony and Cleopatra as a play about the...
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If someone were to ask why art and culture have proved so vital to the modern age, one might do worse than reply: to compensate for the...
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Northrop Frye viewed literature as a vast structure of the human imagination. He taught that imagination can broaden our beliefs and...
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100th anniversary of Canada's most distinguished literary critic and an inspiring teacher, Northrop Frye, born July 14, 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
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Northrop Frye, one of the country's most eminent thinkers, devoted his life to a study of literature and culture that was deeply rooted in the Bible.
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What good is the study of literature? Northrop Frye's 1962 CBC Massey Lectures were his attempt to answer that age-old question.
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