The educated imagination / compiled by W.C. Lougheed for the Strathy Language Unit
| dc.contributor | Fee, Margery Strathy Language Unit Queen's U |
| dc.contributor.author | Frye, Northrop |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:04:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:04:10Z |
| dc.date.created | 1963 |
| dc.date.issued | 1991-09-09 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0597 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0597 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0597 |
| dc.description.abstract | In English Title from University of Oxford Text Archive records Massey lectures. 2nd series |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lectures -- Canada -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Lectures |
| dc.title | The educated imagination / compiled by W.C. Lougheed for the Strathy Language Unit |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<1THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR>1
For the past twenty-five years I have been teaching and studying
English literature in a university. As in any other job, certain
questions stick in one's mind, not because people keep asking
them, but because they're the questions inspired by the very fact
of being in such a place. What good is the study of literature?
Does it help us to think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or
live a better life than we could without it? What is the function
of the teacher and scholar, or of the person who calls himself, as
I do, a literary critic? What difference does the study of litera-
ture 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 ques-
tions 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 . . .
