More by Northrop Frye
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)
All Northrop Frye quotes →