The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
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… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
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… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
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… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
