{"id":16522,"date":"2010-09-10T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=16522"},"modified":"2010-09-10T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:05:57","slug":"quote-of-the-day-history-repeats-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/10\/quote-of-the-day-history-repeats-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: “History repeats myth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xkW_ZkMtmlQ<\/p>\n

All of the Ned scenes from <\/em>Groundhog Day<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been keeping my eye out for the source of this quote from Frye: “History doesn’t repeat itself; history repeats myth.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to Bob Denham’s Northrop Frye Unbuttoned<\/em>, I now have the complete quote, which comes from one of the late notebooks and appears in Collected Works<\/em> 5, 164:<\/p>\n

Why do people call me<\/em> “anti-historical”?\u00a0 I talk about myth, and it’s myth<\/em> that’s anti-historical.\u00a0 It’s the counter-historical principle, just as metaphor is the counter-logical principle.\u00a0 History doesn’t repeat itself; history repeats myth.\u00a0 (It’s not simple repetition, though: it’s not a da capo<\/em> aria but a theme with variations.)\u00a0 As I’ve often said, you never get logic in literature: what you get is what Susanne Langer would call virtual logic, a rhetorical illusion of logic.\u00a0 Similarly you never get history in literature: you get virtual history, history assimilated to myth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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