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"For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong."

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About Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and theorist whose work influenced modern literary studies. He is especially known for books such as Anatomy of Criticism.

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