Northrop Frye Quote

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.


Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)


We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.