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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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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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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
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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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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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