Northrop Frye

The Educated Imagination

Essays on education, imagination and the purpose of humanistic learning

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Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye

Canadian literary critic whose Anatomy of Criticism is the most ambitious attempt to establish a systematic scientific account of literature. His archetypal approach to literary form influenced a generation of critics and teachers. He is the greatest Canadian intellectual of the 20th century.

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