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“It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.”

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Northrop Frye

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

“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.”

Stories Literature Principles Sun Habit Conscious Concepts Tradition Structure Mythology Traditional Mature Metaphoric Sun God

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“Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.”

Writing Prose Aphorism Translate

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“Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.”

Humans Heart Left Centre Human Heart

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“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”