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Northrop Frye. The Educated Imagination (Midland Book) Paperback – January 22, 1964. by Northrop Frye (Author) 4.6 80 ratings. See all formats and editions. Hardcover. $51.86 4 Used from $51.86. Paperback. $9.52 17 Used from $5.00 21 New from $15.15.
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The Educated Imagination. Northrop Frye. 4.13. 1,629 ratings191 reviews. Addressed to educators as well as the general reader, this important yet lively and readable book explores the value and uses of literature and its study in our scientific age, and offers a broad program for the teaching of literature in elementary and secondary schools.
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- “The Motive for Metaphor.” Frye begins by exploring the relation of language and literature. “What is the relation of English as the mother tongue to English as a literature?”
- “The Singing School”The literary motive–the “impulse to identify human and natural worlds” (p. 39)–creates metaphors of objects we encounter in space and myths of relations over time.
- “Giants in Time” Moving from metaphor and myth, Frye turns to literary symbolism, where he finds his answer to the question, “What kind of reality does literature have?”
- “The Keys to Dreamland” Frye now deals with the respective claims of the reader and writer, the producer and consumer of literature. “We need two powers in literature,” he says, “a power to create and a power to understand” (p.
Jan 1, 2002 · Northrop Frye. House of Anansi, Jan 1, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 100 pages. "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a...
Oct 13, 2020 · The educated imagination. by. Frye, Northrop. Publication date. 1998. Topics. Literature -- Philosophy, Literature -- Study and teaching. Publisher. Toronto : Anansi.
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