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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

“One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.”

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Words with Power : Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature (1990), Introduction, p. xiii http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnSJb6PPnBoC&amp;pg=PP81&amp;lpg=PP81&amp;dq=%22which+is+inherited,+transmitted+and+diversified+by+literature%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=xJ1cLDaUCI&amp;sig=m6agYWMBlW0qfDYMA7aX9aNM8IE&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=PaCqUsiEM-issQT_4oGAAg&amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q=%22which%20is%20inherited%2C%20transmitted%20and%20diversified%20by%20literature%22&amp;f=false <br class="br">&quot;Quotes&quot;

“The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 61

“The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come.”

Northrop Frye

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 83

“One person by himself is not a complete human being.”

Northrop Frye

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

“We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“A community`s art is its spiritual vision.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 206

“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.(pg.18)”

Northrop Frye

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 2: The Singing School

“Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 8

“The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Six, p. 168

“The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 200

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