The books of a serious writer are like the tip of an iceberg, the little that has emerged from a sunken mountain of torn-up drafts. Northrop FryeA body of words cannot be literally anything but a body of words. Northrop FryeWhat human societies do first is make up stories. An ideology always derives from a mythology. Northrop Frye"Works of art have always been a focus of meditation, a means of concentrating consciousness." Northrop FryeIt is a central task of criticism, in literature or outside it, to try to distinguish the disinterested vision from the interested ideology. Northrop FryeMany students in university cannot write or speak prose. The smear word 'elitist' is near to being applied to anyone who does. Northrop FryeThere is a conception of philosophy as a verbal clothing worn over the indecent nakedness of something called "its imaginative background," so as to allow it to appear in public. It is this retreating nude that I have been trying to study all my life. I call it mythological or metaphorical structure. Northrop Frye"It is part of the function of literature, especially poetry, to keep alive in society the metaphorical habit of mind." Northrop Frye"As the Greek word for ladder, 'klimax', reminds us, it is the last step on the ladder that is the crucial one". Northrop Frye

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