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“What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.”

Quote by Northrop Frye

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

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Anatomy of Criticism

This seminal book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of literary criticism, analyzing various critical approaches and their implications for the study of literature. more

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Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, renowned for his extensive work on the Bible, mythology, and the literary imagination. His theories have had a significant impact on the field of literary criticism and have influenced many scholars and critics. more

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“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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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.”

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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.”

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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.”

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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

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

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Book:Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

Source: Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

“There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.”

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Author:Northrop Frye

“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”

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Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

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Book:The Last Resort

Source: The Last Resort

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