Northrop Frye's Profile
Brief about Northrop Frye: By info that we know Northrop Frye was born at 1912-07-14. And also Northrop Frye is Canadian Critic.
Some Northrop Frye's quotes. Goto "Northrop Frye's quotation" section for more.Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Tags: Country, Money, MoralThe pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Tags: Beauty, Ego, TruthThe metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Tags: Fact, Human, StupidIt is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Tags: Both, Culture, PossibleThe most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Tags: Book, Invented, MachineCulture'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.
Tags: Culture, Religion, ServiceIn 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 patented.
Tags: Art, Law, WorkJust 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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