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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... social ceremonies . But we can see literary expression taking shape in these things , and forming an imaginative framework , so to speak , that contains the literature descending from it . Stories are told about gods , and form a mythology ...
... social mythology , with its own folklore and its own literary conventions , or what corresponds to them . The purpose of this mythology is to persuade us to accept our society's standards and values , to “ ad- just ” to it , as we say ...
Northrop Frye. faces saved , self - respect preserved , and social situa- tions intact . It's not the noblest thing that words can do , but it's essential , and it creates and diffuses a social mythology , which is a structure of words ...