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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.”

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

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

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.”

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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.”

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

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

"Quotes", 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.”

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)”

"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.”

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.”

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.”

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

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