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Herman Northrop Frye è stato un critico letterario canadese.

Cresciuto a Moncton, nel New Brunswick, è entrato nel Victoria College nel 1929, laureandosi con lode in filosofia nel 1933, per poi passare alla facoltà di teologia ed essere ordinato pastore della Union Church of Canada nel 1936. Ha poi proseguito gli studi presso il Merton College di Oxford.

Dal 1940 ha poi insegnato letteratura inglese all'Emmanuel College della Victoria University di Toronto, di cui è stato anche rettore dal 1959 al 1966.

Nell'anno accademico 1974-1975 è stato Norton professor alla Harvard University.

Ha sposato Helen Kemp, anche lei insegnante, nel 1937 e, rimasto vedovo nel 1984, ha sposato Elizabeth Brown nel 1986.

Morto nel 1991, è sepolto nel Mount Pleasant Cemetery di Toronto, in Ontario.

Nel 2000 il Canada ha stampato un francobollo con la sua immagine.

La sua opera più famosa è Anatomia della critica, uscita in prima edizione nel 1957, ma anche i suoi studi sulla Bibbia e su William Blake sono molto importanti e hanno avuto successo tra gli studiosi a cavallo tra letteratura e religione.

Tra gli argomenti di indagine figurano anche Percy Shelley, George Byron, John Milton, William Shakespeare e gli archetipi mito-poietici della letteratura.

Il Frye concepisce la letteratura come un universo a sé stante: <<essa non è un commento sulla vita e sulla realtà, ma inserisce vita e realtà in un sistema di relazioni verbali>>.

La letteratura imita e ricostruisce nelle sue strutture verbali <<il sogno totale dell'uomo>>. Compito della critica è di mettere in chiaro quell'ordine di strutture. E il Frye costruisce allo scopo, un complesso sistema di simboli, modi, miti e generi, alla base dei quali sono facilmente riconoscibili gli archetipi di Jung. I miti della generazione e della morte, i ritmi della vita, del sogno e delle stagioni: sono queste le strutture fondamentali della realtà che la letteratura ricostruisce.

✵ 14. Luglio 1912 – 23. Gennaio 1991   •   Altri nomi Нортроп Фрай, Нортроп Фрај, ਨੋਰਥਰੋਪ ਫ੍ਰਾਈ
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Northrop Frye: Frasi in inglese

“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)

“Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or parody of genuinely human life.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 149

“…there is something about time and space that is not real, and something about us that is. However man may have tumbled into this world of indefinite space, he does not belong to it at all. Real space for him is the eternal here; where we are is always the center of the universe, and the circumference of the universe, just as real time is the 'eternal Now' of our personal experience.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Fearful Symmetry : A Study of William Blake (1947), p. 46

“Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world.”

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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&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
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“It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and where we have to surrender precision for flexibility.”

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Origine: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 56

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

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

“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype

“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.”

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

“The "flow of information," which is mostly misinformation, is actually a presentation of myths. And people are increasingly rejecting the prescribed myths & developing their own counter-myths.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 97

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

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"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.”

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Origine: "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)”

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

“I have a notion that a prolonged period of solitude & fasting would produce hallucinations, & that these would be mandalas and such: they would be the essential forms in which "outer" perceptions are organized.”

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"Quotes", Notebooks

“When you stop to think about it, you soon realize that our imagination is what our whole social life is really based on…. In practically everything we do it's thee combination of emotion and intellect we call imagination that goes to work.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“An aphorism is not a cliche: it penetrates & bites. It has wit, and consequently an affinity with satire…Christ speaks in aphorisms, not because they are alive, but because he is.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 108

“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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Origine: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 199

“Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.”

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Introduction, p. xiii
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)

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

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

“Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype

“The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.”

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Origine: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Two, p. 31

“No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland

“No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.”

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

“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.”

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

“Jargon or gobbledygook, or what people who live in Washington or Ottawa call "federal prose," [is] the gabble of abstractions and vague words which avoids any simple or direct statement…. Direct and simple language always has some force behind it, and the writers of gobbledygook don't want to be forceful; they want to be soothing and reassuring.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“The worst thing we can say about God is that he knows all. The best thing we can say of him is that, on the whole, he tends to keep his knowledge to himself.”

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

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

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

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