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Northrop Frye Quotes
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. 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...


Biography

Name: Northrop Frye
Birth Date: July 14, 1912
Death Date: January 23, 1991
Place of Birth: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Place of Death: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: scholar

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Biography of Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was a Canadian literary scholar. His literary theories, which outlined a science of literary criticism based on a core of identifiable mythic forms, had unusual importance internationally, particularly in the late 1950s to...
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Biography of (Herman) Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye's literary criticism is one of the distinctive achievements of modern critical thought. Harold Bloom refers to Frye as "the leading theoretician of literary criticism among all those writing in English today," and in their anthology...
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Biography of (Herman) Northrop Frye
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One of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, Northrop Frye was the founder of archetypal criticism. In his most well-known work, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), he rejected earlier formalist and historicist...
 


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Frye, Northrop Summary
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FRYE, NORTHROP. The reputation of Northrop Frye (1912–1991) as a literary theorist was originally based upon his Anatomy of Criticism (1957), a book that sought to provide a structural framework for the study of literature through an analysis of...
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Northrop Frye Information
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Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary critics and literary theorists of the twentieth...


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Northrop Frye: The Theoretical Imagination. (book reviews)
09/22/1996: 2,386 words, approx. 8 pages
A book about Northrop Frye from a cutting-edge press like Routledge? Well, if nothing else, it has a certain surprise value, like eggs laid by tigers, to borrow a line from Dylan Thomas. Beyond that, however, as Christopher Norris explains in his (series) Editor's...
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Christianity and Literature
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. (Book Reviews). (book review)
09/22/2001: 1,685 words, approx. 6 pages
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. By Caterina Nella Cotrupi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8020-4316-X (cloth), 0-8020-8141-X (paper). Pp. xii + 145. $40.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper). With The Collected Works of Northrop Frye now well under way (about a...
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The New York Observer
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on \'d4Real Life\'d5
8/20/2006: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pages
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory, or buried deep in the “text”—that sunless realm where books are forgotten, readers irrelevant and authors dead. Split into feuding factions, the high priests of...
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The New York Observer
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'
8/20/2006: 1,129 words, approx. 4 pages
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory, or buried deep in the “text”—that sunless realm where books are forgotten, readers irrelevant and authors dead. Split into feuding factions, the high priests of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by W.k. Wimsatt
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[Let me] begin my argument with Frye by quoting two authors in whose classic thought Frye finds several of his own starting points—Plato and Aristotle. Plato, in the Ion …, where the rhapsode is quizzed to the point of saying that a rhapsode (that is, a literary critic) will know the right things (ha prepei) for a man to say, the right things for a woman, for a slave, or for a freeman—but not what the slave, if he is a cowherd, ought to say to his cows, or what the woman, if she is a sp...
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey H. Hartman
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It may not please those who know the great differences in pedagogical method between the New Critics and Northrop Frye to have me begin by suggesting that Frye is part of a single modern movement to democratize criticism and demystify the muse. I would go further and say that Frye is our most radical demystifier of criticism, even though his great achievement is the recovery of the demon or of the intrinsic role of romance in the human imagination. His importance to literary history proper is as a topograph...
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Critical Essay by Francis Sparshott
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In his native Canada, Northrop Frye holds a unique position as the sole humanistic academic guru. [The Great Code: The Bible and Literature] received unprecedented publicity in the year before it appeared, has become a bestseller by local standards, and has been enthusiastically received in the popular press. But that reception has not been related to any close study of what the book has attempted or what it has achieved, concentrating rather on the image of itself the book projects. Among academic readers,...
 
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Wilderness and the Canadian Mind: Treatment of Nature in Canadian Literature
7,743 words, approx. 26 pages
Provides a critique of Northrop Frye's "garrison mentality" thesis, this essay examines the treatment of "nature" as a subject in Canadian literature.


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