Northrop Frye Quotes About Mythology

Quotes about: Mythology

• Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

  Northrop Frye

  Literature, Mythology, Humans

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.229, Dundurn

• The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

  Northrop Frye

  Philosophy, Literature, Mythology

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2003). “Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts”, p.158, University of Toronto Press

• Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

  Northrop Frye

  Principles, Stories, Literature

  1971 The Bush Garden,'Conclusion'.

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