“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Canadian-literature Copy Share Image
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. — Northrop Frye Advertising Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Animal Copy Share Image
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and… — Northrop Frye American Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and… — Northrop Frye Experience Copy Share Image
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye Book 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 Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.” — Northrop Frye Loyalty Copy Share Image
The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium. — Northrop Frye Book 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 Bigger Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular… — Northrop Frye Affectionate Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — 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
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Aspect Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Analogies Copy Share Image
The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time… — Northrop Frye Astronomy Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally… — Northrop Frye Acceptable Copy Share Image
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. — Northrop Frye Imagination Copy Share Image
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what… — Northrop Frye Answers Copy Share Image
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye Degrade Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if… — Northrop Frye Arguing Copy Share Image
