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• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

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  Art, What If, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

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  Men, Water Of Life, Tree

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

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  Book, May, Old Testament

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

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  Intelligent, Men, People

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2004). “Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries”, Gnomon Distribution

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• We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

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  Space, Goes On, Scared

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

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  Country, Psychology, World

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.63, Dundurn

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• Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.

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  Fall, Together, Special

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.412, University of Toronto Press

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• The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.

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  People, Heaven, Cosmos

  Northrop Frye, Angela Esterhammer (2005). “Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake”, p.424, University of Toronto Press

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