What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. - Northrop Frye
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
- Northrop Frye
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre. - Northrop Frye
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads… - Northrop Frye
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads…
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. - Northrop Frye
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually m… - Northrop Frye
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually m…
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of … - Northrop Frye
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of …
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. - Northrop Frye
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. - Northrop Frye
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human … - Northrop Frye
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human …
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