Northrop Frye Quotes - Page 5

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

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  Art, What If, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Toda la Biblia, vista como una "comedia divina", está contenida dentro de una historia en forma de U de este tipo, una en la que el hombre, como se explica, pierde el árbol y el agua de la vida al principio del Génesis y los recupera al final del Apocalipsis.

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  Men, Water Of Life, Tree

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

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  Book, May, Old Testament

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

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  Inteligente, Hombres, Gente

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2004). “Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries”, Gnomon Distribution

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• We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

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  Space, Goes On, Scared

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• Nuestro país ha demostrado falta de voluntad para resistir su propia desintegración .. . Canadá es prácticamente el único país que queda en el mundo que es una colonia pura; colonial tanto en psicología como en economía mercantil.

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  Country, Psychology, World

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.63, Dundurn

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• Los mitos, en comparación con los cuentos populares, suelen pertenecer a una categoría especial de seriedad: se cree que "ocurrieron de verdad" o que tienen un significado excepcional para explicar ciertas características de la vida, como los rituales. De nuevo, mientras que los cuentos populares se limitan a intercambiar motivos y desarrollar variantes, los mitos muestran una extraña tendencia a unirse y construir estructuras mayores. Tenemos mitos de la creación, de la caída y del diluvio, de la metamorfosis y del dios moribundo.

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  Fall, Together, Special

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.412, University of Toronto Press

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• The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.

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  People, Heaven, Cosmos

  Northrop Frye, Angela Esterhammer (2005). “Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake”, p.424, University of Toronto Press

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