Definition of Northrop Frye

1. Noun. Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).

Exact synonyms: Frye, Herman Northrop Frye
Generic synonyms: Literary Critic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Northrop Frye

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Northern Thai
Northern Wakashan
Northern bedstraw
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Northern dewberry
Northern lobster
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Northerner
Northman
Northmen
Northrop
Northrop Frye (current term)
Northumberland
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Northumbrian
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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
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Norton's operation
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Literary usage of Northrop Frye

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"Literary critic Northrop Frye explains that "the ability to record has a lot more to do with forgetting than with remembering; with keeping the past in the ..."

2. Off Course: Restoring Balance Between Canadian Society and the Environment by Duncan M. Taylor (1994)
"Northrop Frye points out that because Canadians fought their wars of independence against the United States, it is logical that the collective Canadian ..."

3. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Phillip Dexter (2004)
"... Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot, Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen - who took upon themselves the task of supplying us with a new set of what Northrop Frye was ..."

4. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"Northrop Frye, 1912-1991 ~ Maclean's, 1991 Cultural pluralism: it's the air we breathe; it's the ground we stand on. ~ Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994 ~ The plague ..."

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