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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Northrop Frye. The language you use on this level is the language of practical sense , a language of verbs or words of action and movement . The practical world , however , is a world where actions speak louder than words . In some ways ...
... practical skills , and the language of literature . We discovered that the language of literature was associative : it uses figures of speech , like the simile and the metaphor , to suggest an identity between the human mind and the ...
... practical life . Literature reverses this process . When experience is removed from us a bit , as the experience of the Napoleonic war is in Tolstoy's War and Peace , there's a tremendous increase of dignity and exhilara- tion . I ...