The Archetypes of Literature....Northrop Frye

The Archetypes of Literature...Northrop Frye

                     Northrop Frye born in 1912 and death 1991. Canadian literary critic, best known as a major proponent of archetypal criticism.

                                      

                      in this branch of literary criticism, literature and other art forms are seen as manifestations of universal myths and archetypes (largely unconscious image patterns that cross cultural boundaries).

                     Frye's most important work, anatomy of criticism (1957), introduced archetypal criticism, identifying and discussing basic archetypal patterns as found in myths, literary genres, and the reader's imagination.

1). What is Archetypal criticism? What does the Archetypal critic do?

ANS:- In literary criticism the term "archetype" denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of actions, character-type,themes & images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams and even social rituals. such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental & universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes expressed by the author.

2). What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of "physics to nature" & "criticism to literature"?

ANS:- Here Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of 'physics to nature' and 'criticism to literature' is that physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not that he is learning nature. art, like nature, is the subject of a systematic study, and has to be distinguished from the study itself, which is criticism.

3). Share your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge. mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

ANS:- Criticism is as an organised body of knowledge. so it is progressive way of literature. but literature never organised it should free from it for the progress of literature. it definitely deeply connected with the history and philosophy both are important pillars of literature. the history connected with the myths and philosophy connected with morality and ethics. history stands for events and philosophy is stands for idea.

4). Briefly explain indicative method with illustrations of Shakespeare 's Hamlet 's grave digger 's scene.  

 ANS:-  inductive method means going move further "particular to general" in hamlet's grave Diging 's scene we can deals with inductive method like, hamlet looks at the Yorick 's skull, then fights with laertes due to Ophelia 's death and Hamlet 's confesses his love for Ophelia.  

5). Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, painting, rhythm and pattern. give examples of the outcome of deductive method.

ANS:- now about deductive method means from general to particular.

• Time - past , present or future
• space

A)  music in time and painting in space

B)  music has rhythm and painting has pattern

C)  rhythm comes from nature like winter, summer etc..

D)  pattern comes from symbols

Example :- red rose is symbol of love and sun rising is symbol of hope in each and every world of literature.

                 and for that deductive method it means based on logical or reasonable deduction. the music, painting , rhythm and pattern there are all art may be conceived both temporally and speatially. the rhythm of music and the pattern of painting ; but later, to show off our sophistication, we may be conceived both temporally and spatially. the score of musical composition may be studied all at once ;a picture may be seen as the track of an intricate dance of the eye. literature seems to be intermediate between music and painting; its words form rhythms which approach a musical sequence of sound at one of its boundaries and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphic or pictorial image at the other.

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid (below). if you can, please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach and apply Indian Seasonal grid in the interpretation.

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                    Moreover i would like to share one Gujarati poem. this poem interpretation bout Indian season of monsoon. in this poem, poet used archetype character like as, peacock, cloud, sky...etc. he also talked about waiting for season monsoon.

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