"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
January 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
Anyone who believes There’s Only One Story just needs to read a little #NorthropFrye …
“It is an enterprise in which #convention is disguised as #variety, while constraint is disguised as freedom – and this, surely, is the essence of #Western #consumercapitalism.” aeon.co/essays/why-d...
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Anyone who believes There’s Only One Story just needs to read a little #NorthropFrye …
“What does in the #arts is the #comprehension of them, and the refining of #society which results from it. It is the consumer, not the producer, who benefits by #culture, the consumer who becomes humanized, and liberally #educated.” - #NorthropFrye, Anatomy of #Criticism
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“What does in the #arts is the #comprehension of them, and the refining of #society which results from it. It is the consumer, not the producer, who benefits by #culture, the consumer who becomes humanized, and liberally #educated.” - #NorthropFrye, Anatomy of #Criticism
“ #NorthropFrye, one of the great critic scholars of #Blake, said he should be called a visionary, because he communicates via images, whereas Frye was inclined to feel that a mystic was someone who communicated by paradox or illusion.” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
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“ #NorthropFrye, one of the great critic scholars of #Blake, said he should be called a visionary, because he communicates via images, whereas Frye was inclined to feel that a mystic was someone who communicated by paradox or illusion.” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒️ #NorthropFrye, Canadian literary critic, was #BOTD 14 July 1912. #Literature
[Image: statue at Moncton Public Library in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada]
✒️ #NorthropFrye, Canadian literary critic, was #BOTD 14 July 1912. #Literature
[Image: statue at Moncton Public Library in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada]
July 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒️ #NorthropFrye, Canadian literary critic, was #BOTD 14 July 1912. #Literature
[Image: statue at Moncton Public Library in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada]
✒️ #NorthropFrye, Canadian literary critic, was #BOTD 14 July 1912. #Literature
[Image: statue at Moncton Public Library in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada]
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
“Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”
#NorthropFrye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
“Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”
#NorthropFrye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
July 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
“Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”
#NorthropFrye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
“Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”
#NorthropFrye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
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April 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
January 23, 2026 at 5:54 AM
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
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