Famous Northrop Frye Quotes

  • A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don’t mind being that. – Northrop Frye

    A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don’t mind being that.– Northrop Frye

  • Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows. – Northrop Frye

    Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.– Northrop Frye

  • Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation-¦ – Northrop Frye

    Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation-¦– Northrop Frye

  • For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man. – Northrop Frye

    For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.– Northrop Frye