Northrop Frye Quotes about Study

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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Imagination, Literature, Study

Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.484, University of Toronto Press

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Literature, Study, Subjects

Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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.

Firsts, Study, Structure

Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.49, University of Toronto Press