"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
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“Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”
#NorthropFrye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒️ #NorthropFrye, Canadian literary critic, was #BOTD 14 July 1912. #Literature
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“What does in the #arts is the #comprehension of them, and the refining of #society which results from it. It is the consumer, not the producer, who benefits by #culture, the consumer who becomes humanized, and liberally #educated.” - #NorthropFrye, Anatomy of #Criticism
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"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature