<正>Northrop Frye is probably the best-known Canadian literary critic who occupies a well deserved place in the history of literary criticism of the English-speaking world.His critical career spans more than half a century and is extremely productive.Murray Krieger,a prominent American critic,pays a high tribute to Frye by saying"…he has had an influence—indeed an absolute hold—on a generation of developing literary critics greater and more exclusive than that of any one theorist in recent critical history."(NFIMC)