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Arts and Entertainment Frye, Northrop
Arts and Entertainment Frye, Northrop
Frye, Northrop
Date of Death:
January 23, 1991
Place of death:
Toronto, Ontario
Northrop Frye was a literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
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Interment Info
Mount Pleasant.
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