Quotes by Frye, Northrop

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was alread >>

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disgu >>

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

Quotations about Popular Culture

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of >>

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. >>

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intelle >>

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Frye, Northrop