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

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

  • 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.

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    1971 The Bush Garden,'Conclusion'.

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

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    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
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Northrop Frye

  • Born: July 14, 1912
  • Died: January 23, 1991
  • Occupation: Literary critic
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