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Northrop Frye, né le 14 juillet 1912, à Sherbrooke, au Québec, et mort le 23 janvier 1991, est un critique littéraire canadien, considéré comme l'un des plus importants théoriciens de la littérature du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. juillet 1912 – 23. janvier 1991   •   Autres noms Нортроп Фрай, Нортроп Фрај, ਨੋਰਥਰੋਪ ਫ੍ਰਾਈ
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Northrop Frye: Citations en anglais

“The world of literature is human in shape”

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html
Contexte: The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience... The world of literature is human in shape, a world where the sun rises in the east and sets in the west over the edge of a flat earth in three dimensions, where the primary realities are not atoms or electrons but bodies, and the primary forces not energy or gravitation but love and death and passion and joy.

“A literary critic of experience never defines anything.”

Source: "Quotes", Interviews with Northrop Frye (2008), p. 4

“The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter One, p. 7

“Literature does not reflect life, but it doesn't escape or withdraw from life either: it swallows it.”

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

“Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 58

“I don`t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God.”

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7

“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.”

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

“The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Five, p. 158

“I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation, revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Five, p. 106

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