Who said that Northrop Frye 'did not lock literature into an ivory tower' but stressed its role in building a civilised, humane society?
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Correct answer: B. Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood, Frye's student at Victoria College, Toronto, paid this tribute to him (Globe and Mail, 1991).
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