Added by you! Northrop Frye

Canadian critic and professor, Northrop Frye was internationally recognized as one of the twentieth century’s leading literary theorists. Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, Frye became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1939 and remained associated with U of T until his death in 1991. Influenced by his Methodist background, Fry’s chief concern was with how Christian mythology underlies a great span of Western literature. His book Fearful Symmetry revealed previously unnoticed patterns of Christian symbolism in the work of William Blake. Frye also probed the central role of biblical imagery in Western literature in his landmark works Anatomy of Criticism and The Great Code. His work had a particularly strong influence on an emerging generation of American literary scholars in the mid-1960s.