Northrop Frye Quote

Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world.


Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)


Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible...

Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible...

Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible...

Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible...