Part one of term paper
The renowned Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye held a series of radio broadcasts, in which he presents his beliefs of literatures place in the world. In the sixth of his lectures, Frye culminates his study of the relevance of literature in the world. He restates his theme, and expands from “strict critical theory into the wider and mor ...

Part two of term paper
... of speaking to his audience as the literary elite. He says he is speaking to the audience as “consumers” (134). He tries to overcome the notion that the studying of literature is not a necessary part of the process of learning to read and write. He stresses the importance of the imagination and it’s appearance in our reality. He states: The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to li ...