Ebook: The Northrop Frye quote book
- Tags: Frye Northrop -- 1912-1991 -- Quotations. Criticism -- Quotations. Canadian. Quotations.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Language: English
- epub
"There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of a circumference." Northrop Frye came to that conclusion after a detailed study of the imaginative achievements of Canada's writers from the earliest period to 1965, when that sentence from his study first appeared in print. Over the decades since then, the statement has come to be regarded asRead more...
Abstract: "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of a circumference." Northrop Frye came to that conclusion after a detailed study of the imaginative achievements of Canada's writers from the earliest period to 1965, when that sentence from his study first appeared in print. Over the decades since then, the statement has come to be regarded as a benchmark of individual and national literary achievement. -- is John Robert Colombo has written, translated, edited, or compiled over two hundred books, including seven dictionaries of quotations. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Frye Centre at Victoria University. Jean O'Grady, a graduate of the University of Toronto, served as the associate editor of The Collected Works of Northrop Frye