Northrop Frye facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye in 1984
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Herman Northrop Frye
July 14, 1912 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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| Died | January 23, 1991 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Victoria College, Toronto Emmanuel College, Toronto Merton College, Oxford |
| School | Archetypal literary criticism, Romanticism |
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Main interests
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Imagination, archetype, myth, the Bible |
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Notable ideas
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Archetypes of literature, classless culture |
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'Herman Northrop Frye, CC, FRSC, usually called Northrop or Norrie, (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist. This means he wrote about books to help people understand them. He is often said to be one of the most influential critics and theorists of the 20th century.
His most famous book is The Anatomy of Criticism (1957).
Family life
Frye married Helen Kemp, an educator, editor and artist, in 1937. She died in Australia while accompanying Frye on a lecture tour. Two years after her death in 1986, he married Elizabeth Brown. He died in 1991 and was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.
Images for kids
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Northrop Frye Hall, University of Toronto
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Northrop Frye statue outside the entrance of Moncton Public Library at Blue Cross Centre
