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Previous Massey lecturers have included John Kenneth Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Martin Luther King and Northrop Frye, which is perhaps why I had long dodged the invitation to do them: surely in such illustrious company I'd be a lightweight.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Peter Clarke 2009
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Now, some professors are fun to read: Think of the cool Olympian clarity of Northrop Frye, the astonishing encyclopedism of Hugh Kenner, the delicious precisions of Guy Davenport, the Empsonian dash and brilliance of Christopher Ricks.
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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Northrop Frye, Alexis tells us was one of the catalysts for a kind of ‘populist critical rebellion’ say what?
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And furthermore, did not that great Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye suggest that ads are farcical, ironic, and trivial and that their prodigious power rests here precisely because we view them as a joke, without analyzing their bountiful effects?
Back by Popular Demand: Is Advertising Art, by Nigel Beale. 2010
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On your main point I appeal to Northrop Frye, who says somewhere that when it comes to reading literature, every increase in understanding is an increase in appreciation.
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And furthermore, did not that great Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye suggest that ads are farcical, ironic, and trivial and that their prodigious power rests here precisely because we view them as a joke, without analyzing their bountiful effects?
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Northrop Frye, Alexis tells us was one of the catalysts for a kind of ‘populist critical rebellion’ say what?
The ‘woefully incompetent’ and ‘pugnacious’ André Alexis 2010
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And furthermore, did not that great Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye suggest that ads are farcical, ironic, and trivial and that their prodigious power rests here precisely because we view them as a joke, without analyzing their bountiful effects?
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The Northrop Frye point was adduced more to highlight Margaret Atwood than Frye per se.
The ‘woefully incompetent’ and ‘pugnacious’ André Alexis 2010
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Davis was the Northrop Frye professor of literary theory at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1996.
Natalie Zemon Davis. 2009
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