Quotes by Frye, Northrop

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitati >>

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to an >>

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual i >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specializat >>

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeli >>

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artis >>

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Frye, Northrop