Posted in Heidegger, Mythology, Northrop Frye, thrownness, tagged 泰西文论 on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Northrop Frye, Creation and Recreation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 6-7.
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Our envelope, as I have called it, the cultural insulation that separates us from nature, is rather like (to use a figure that has haunted me from childhood) the window of a lit-up railway carriage at night. Most of the time it is a [...]
Posted in Imagination, Keats, Northrop Frye, Plato, myth, subconscious, tagged 泰西文论 on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964), 102-103.
Literature, then, is not a dream-world: it’s two dreams, a wish-fulfillment dream and an anxiety dream, that are focused together, like a pair of glasses, and become a fully conscious vision. Art, according to Plato, is a dream for awakened minds, a work of imagination [...]
