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The Educated Imagination (Midland Books: No. 8)

by Northrop Frye · 1963

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"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it? ... What difference does the study of literature make in our social or political or religious attitude? In my early days I thought very little about such questions, not because I had any of the answers, but because I assumed that anybody who asked them was naive. I think now that the simplest questions are not only the hardest to answer, but the most important to ask, so I'm going to raise them and try to suggest what my present answers are."

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Written in a relaxed, informal, and frequently humorous style, The Educated Imaginationis an easy introduction to Northrop Frye's theories of literature and literary education.

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literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thiseducationeducationMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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writerswritersMore like thisLess of thisimaginationimaginationMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of this
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1960s1960sMore like thisLess of thisCanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 68 pages
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