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Herman Northrop Frye foi um crítico literário canadense, um dos mais célebres do século XX.



Nascido em Sherbrooke, Quebec, mas criado em Moncton, New Brunswick, ele passou toda sua carreira, incluindo seus dias de aluno da graduação, na Faculdade Victoria, Universidade de Toronto. Ele chegou à proeminência internacional quando ainda era estudante. A poesia profética de William Blake há muito era considerada divagações delirantes que nunca poderiam ser entendidas. Frye encontrou nela um sistema de metáfora derivado do Paraíso Perdido e da Bíblia. Ele publicou suas descobertas como Fearful Symmetry em 1947.

Dez anos mais tarde ele expandiu sua visão, defendendo em Anatomia da crítica que há certos arquétipos e símbolos usados por toda a literatura. Seu O código dos códigos examinou como as cenas e imagens da Bíblia são a base de toda a literatura ocidental. Dentro desse contexto, ele analisou a novela Dão-Lalalão de João Guimarães Rosa, na qual percebeu influências bíblicas do livro Cantares de Salomão .

Ele também se ocupou de crítica cultural e social e recebeu 39 títulos honorários. Anatomia da crítica permanece um dos mais importantes trabalhos da crítica literária do século XX.

Frye foi premiado com Medalha Lorne Pierce Medal da Royal Society of Canada em 1958. Em 1972 ele recebeu a Comenda da Ordem do Canadá.

Northrop Frye morreu em 1991 e foi enterrado no Mount Pleasant Cemetery em Toronto, Ontário.

Em 2000, ele foi honrado pelo governo do Canadá com sua imagem num selo postal. Um festival devotado aos trabalhos de Northrop Frye é realizado anualmente em Moncton, New Brunswick no mês de abril.

✵ 14. Julho 1912 – 23. Janeiro 1991   •   Outros nomes Нортроп Фрай, Нортроп Фрај, ਨੋਰਥਰੋਪ ਫ੍ਰਾਈ
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Northrop Frye Frases famosas

“Educação é algo que afeta a pessoa como um todo, não apenas uma parte ou pedaços dela. Não apenas treina a mente: é um desenvolvimento moral e social também.”

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“Toda sociedade humana possui uma mitologia que é herdada, transmitida, e diversificada pela literatura.”

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Palavras com poder (1990)

Northrop Frye: Frases em inglês

“If I had been on the hills of Bethlehem in the year one, I do not think I should have heard angels singing because I do not hear them now, & there is no reason to suppose that they have stopped.”

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Fonte: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 74

“Under the stimulation of a "great age" or certain period of clarity in art a wider diffusion of genius becomes actual suggests to me that it is always potential.”

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Fonte: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 8

“Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.”

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Letter to Helen Kemp, 1935, The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939, (1996), p. 1:426
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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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Fonte: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Seven, p. 169

“I have never had the sort of experience the mystics talk about, never felt a revelation of reality through or beyond nature, never felt like Adam in Paradise, never felt, in direct experience, that the world is wholly other than it seems…The nearest I have come to such experiences are glimpses of my own creative powers…and these are moments or intervals of inspiration rather than vision. I’m not sure that I want it unless I can have clarity about other things with it.”

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Fonte: "Quotes", The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972 (2002), p. 60–1

“There's something in all of us that wants to drift toward a mob, where we can all say the same thing without having to think about it, because everybody is all alike except people that we can hate or persecute. Every time we use words, we're either righting against this tendency or giving in to it. When we fight against it, we're taking the side of genuine and permanent human civilization.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“[What Poets Say:]”

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"Quotes", Notebooks

“The soul is an immaculate virgin…Then it goes out and gets fucked by the world all day long & staggers back a baggy-eyed old whore, still hoping that after a sleep the Moment of purification will come again.”

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Fonte: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 27

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland

“The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it re-creates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination.”

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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1981) according to Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death p 13.
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)

“Education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him. It doesn't just train the mind: it's a social and moral development too.”

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The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“We relate the poems and plays and novels we read and see, not to the men who wrote them, nor even directly to ourselves; we relate them to each other. Literature is a world that we try to build up and enter at the same time.”

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The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

“In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.”

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The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve.'”

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Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

“A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.”

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Northrop Frye livro Anatomy of Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

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