“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is… — Northrop Frye Accuracy Copy Share Image
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience… — Northrop Frye Art 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
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Aliens Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Adventure Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye Approach Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Desire Copy Share Image
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
