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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for literalists, becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.
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There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
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Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a type or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.
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The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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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.
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The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.
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