Quotes by Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

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The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibit — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be ass — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure o — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper li — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of me, and I — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination