The Educated ImaginationIndiana University Press, 22 gen 1964 - 160 pagine Addressed to educators and general readers—the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life—this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. |
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... nature to certain human beings , usually magicians , sometimes kings . You may say that these things belong to ... natural worlds ; that they're really metaphors , and become purely metaphors , part of the language of poetry , as soon as ...
... nature . Literature reflects this , and the more advanced the civilization , the more literature seems to concern itself with purely human problems and conflicts . The gods and heroes of the old myths fade away and give place to people ...
... nature to the point of having a mother in the sea and an enemy in the river , besides having other gods in the sky directly interested in him and what he's doing . And because with all his superhuman strength he's still up against ...