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The Northrop Frye Quote Book

The Northrop Frye Quote Book

O'Grady, Jean
Frye, Northrop
Colombo, John Robert

Paperback

Literary CriticismQuotations

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 1459719581
ISBN13: 9781459719583
Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd
Published: Apr 8 2014
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

A collection of quotations from Canada's greatest literary theorist.

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.



The Northrop Frye Quote Book is a specialized dictionary of quotations on all subjects that is based on the thoughts and writings of one person. It is the handiwork of a single contributor, albeit the cogitations of a remarkable one. It is also evidence that there is a Canadian writer of whom it may be said that we can grow up inside his work without ever being aware of a circumference.



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.

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