Literature's Audience

"There is no direct address in literature: it isn't what you say but how it's said that important there." pg 24


This quote shows an important aspect of literature that I thought we don't usually think about to often, that being how literature can be perceived. Frye is explaining in the entire passage about how language and literature can be passed on and create imagination and how this imagination created is what shows that the information has been passed onto the listeners. Frye is correct in the sense that there is no direct address in literature due to the fact that we can continuosly address people with different form of literature but if it is not spoken or written in a manner that will create imagination or get the attention of the listeners/readers than the literature is not getting addressed anywhere. This is something that many of us tend to forget when it comes to presenting various types of work that we have. Overall i think Frye is trying to show us how literature can be better understood so that it actually does become more interesting than it actually is, no matter what type of literature it is.