biography
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Frye, (Herman) Northrop
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| lived:
| (1912–91)
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| biography:
| Literary critic and editor, born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, SE Canada. A professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1939, he achieved international recognition for his literary theories, expounded in his study of William Blake, Fearful Symmetry (1947), also seen in his grammar of mythic form, Anatomy of Criticism (1957), and his study of the Bible's symbolism, The Great Code (1982). One of the century's leading literary theorists, he tried to establish an objective and universally accepted terminology for literature studies. |
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