Northrop Frye Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991
Birthday: July 14
Death: January 23
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.
source: 1971 The Bush Garden,'Conclusion'.
topic: Principles, Stories, Literature, Sun God, Metaphoric, Traditional
