The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
Northrop FryeWhat if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.
Northrop FryeEvery human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Northrop Frye