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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

“If I had been on the hills of Bethlehem in the year one, I do not think I should have heard angels singing because I do not hear them now, & there is no reason to suppose that they have stopped.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 74

“Under the stimulation of a "great age" or certain period of clarity in art a wider diffusion of genius becomes actual suggests to me that it is always potential.”

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

“Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.”

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Letter to Helen Kemp, 1935, The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939, (1996), p. 1:426
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“The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.”

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Origine: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Seven, p. 169

“I have never had the sort of experience the mystics talk about, never felt a revelation of reality through or beyond nature, never felt like Adam in Paradise, never felt, in direct experience, that the world is wholly other than it seems…The nearest I have come to such experiences are glimpses of my own creative powers…and these are moments or intervals of inspiration rather than vision. I’m not sure that I want it unless I can have clarity about other things with it.”

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Origine: "Quotes", The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972 (2002), p. 60–1

“There's something in all of us that wants to drift toward a mob, where we can all say the same thing without having to think about it, because everybody is all alike except people that we can hate or persecute. Every time we use words, we're either righting against this tendency or giving in to it. When we fight against it, we're taking the side of genuine and permanent human civilization.”

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

“[What Poets Say:]”

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"Quotes", Notebooks

“The soul is an immaculate virgin…Then it goes out and gets fucked by the world all day long & staggers back a baggy-eyed old whore, still hoping that after a sleep the Moment of purification will come again.”

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Origine: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 27

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”

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

“The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it re-creates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination.”

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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1981) according to Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death p 13.
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)

“Education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him. It doesn't just train the mind: it's a social and moral development too.”

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

“We relate the poems and plays and novels we read and see, not to the men who wrote them, nor even directly to ourselves; we relate them to each other. Literature is a world that we try to build up and enter at the same time.”

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

“In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.”

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

“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve.'”

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Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

“A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.”

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Northrop Frye libro Anatomy of Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

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