Northrop Frye Quotes About Imagination

• In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

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  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.22, Indiana University Press

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• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

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

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  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.470, University of Toronto Press

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• My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

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  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.492, University of Toronto Press

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• We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

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  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.136, Indiana University Press

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• Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

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  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.484, University of Toronto Press

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• No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

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  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.473, University of Toronto Press

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• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

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  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

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