弗莱处于诸多文化因素构成的文化"场"中,这促使他成为了文化批评家。弗莱批评理论与荣格理论、西方马克思主义、新历史主义、新批评、结构主义同中有异,有着独特的整体性文化批评倾向。弗莱批评理论兼具现代性与后现代性的双重性质。The cultural "field", constituted with various cultural elements, in which Frye is situated, makes him a culture critic. With his special integrative cultural critical attitude, Frye's critical theory differs from those of Jung, western Marxism, Neo-historicism, Neo-criticism and structuralism while sharing some common grounds. Frye's critical theory processes the double features of modernity and post-modernity
