About Author
What year did Frye publish The Educated Imagination?
1963
What resource should be the basis of literary training? Why?
Bible
What are the four genres mentioned by Frye in this chapter?
When teaching literature, where must we start (what is the core of literature as described by Frye)?
Poetry
Children
When was Frye Born? (full date)
July 14, 1912
In mythology, writers frequently explore .............. and .................
symbolic language and archetypal figures.
Why is it important to form a habit of identifying different structures in literature?
A person will better be able to interpret and imagine various texts by comparing different forms of it.
What is the "practice" of literature?
The production of literature by all types of writers.
What did Frye take the title of the chapter from?
A series of sonnets by Dylan Thomas.
What study did Frye do that set him on his critical career path?
The study of William Blake
Frye explains that myths serve as the ......... to comprehending the world and ..............
- basis
- human experiences
What example did Frye use to talk about the importance of being able to identify structures in literature?
“A student who acquires this habit will see how the comedy Shakespeare he’s studying has the same general structure as the battered old movie he saw on television last night.” (Frye 69).
What is the theory of literature as described by Frye?
Criticism; the activity of uniting literature with society and with the different contexts that literature itself has.
What are the three contexts of the study of English?
Context of languages other than English
Context of the arts other than literature
The relation of literature to other subjects