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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... 
 
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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: |
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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... summary from source:
 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... summary from source:
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
2,456 words, approx. 8 pagesFRYE, 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... summary from source:
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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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 Style 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... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on \'d4Real Life\'d5
8/20/2006: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pagesRemember 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... summary from source:
The New York Observer Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'
8/20/2006: 1,129 words, approx. 4 pagesRemember 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...
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... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
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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