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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 .

Northrop Frye

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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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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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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 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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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
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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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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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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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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
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Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
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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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Poetry can only be made out of other poems novels out of other novels.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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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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We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
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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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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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