Frye, Northrop
FRYE, NORTHROP. The reputation of Northrop Frye (1912–1991) as a literary theorist was originally based upon his Anatomy of Criticism (1957), a book that sought to provide a stru...
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Northrop Frye's literary criticism is one of the distinctive achievements of modern critical thought. Harold Bloom refers to Frye as "the leading theoretician of literary criticism among all those wri...
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Northrop Frye is one of the few twentieth-century critics in North America with an international reputation. Harold Bloom refers to Frye as "the foremost living student of Western literature," adding ...
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One of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, Northrop Frye was the founder of archetypal criticism. In his most well-known work, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), h...
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Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was a Canadian literary scholar. His literary theories, which outlined a science of literary criticism based on a core of identifiable mythic forms, had unusual importance in...
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Wilderness and the Canadian Mind: Treatment of Nature in Canadian Literature
Since Northrop Frye first proposed his "garrison mentality" thesis in 1943, many literary critics have debated its validit...
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Frye, Northrop
(Herman) Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye
