Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature
Northrop Frye was Canadian literary critic. He wrote on “Canadian literature” . he away from the crowd, holding tight to powerful ideas that would change the way people thought about literature. He best known as a most important literary theorists of 20th century. Frye spent his entire professional life teaching at the University of Toronto. where he proposed the idea that all books are based on timeless myths.
1)What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?
Archetypal means ‘Original form'. Archetypal criticism depends heavily on symbols and patterns. It refers to universal symbols, theme , character, images. It repeated throughout literature. It is a term in which Frye 's archetypal criticism strictly categorise works based on their genres which determine how on archetype is to be interpreted in a text .
Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern throughout time and space. There are some universal truths that we can learn by reading .
2)What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'?
Northrop Frye has given a very different idea about Archetypal Criticism by comparing the human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons.
◆. Comedy - spring
◆ Romance – summer
◆ Tragedy – Autumn
◆ Satire – winter
Spring:-
The spring season represents the Comedy. As per the genre of comedy is characterized by the birth of the hero, revival & resurrection. Spring also symbolizes the defeat of winter & darkness.
Summer:-
The season of Summer indicates Romance because Summer is the culmination of life in the seasonal calendar, & the romance genre culminates with some short of triumph usually marriage.
Autumn:-
Autumn season signify the genre of Tragedy. As the autumn is the dying stage of the seasonal calendar that's why the Autumn is parallels to the genre of Tragedy, because the genre of Tragedy is known for the fall on demise of the protagonist.
Winter:-
season of winter denotes the satire genre because of it's darkness. It's a disillusioned & mocking form of the three other genres. It is notes for its darkness, dissolution, the return of chaos & the defeat of heroic figure.
.3)Share your views of Criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.
Northrop frye says on the relation of literature with history and philosophy that literature is the central division of the Humanities, flanked on one side by history and on other side by philosophy and historian deals with events and Philosopher for ideas but critic use both wisdom of philosophy and action of a history. Thus, literature is a connected with history and philosophy both.
4)Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of Shakespeare's Hamlet's Grave Digger's scene.
Inductive method move from scientific to general . We can say that from that scene there is many illustration derived , like Yorick soliloquy , declaration of Love, Hamlet's struggle with Leartes , corruption , blind superstition , loses emotion and at the end universal truth that all human being are moral. so this illustration from that scene , from scientific to general.
5)Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to Music, Painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.
Deductive method moves from general to scientific . some art move in time , like music, and painting. Literature seemed to be intermediate between music and painting , It's words from rhythms with approach a musical sequence of sounds at one of its boundaries , and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphics or pictorial image at the other. Everything in nature that we think of as having some analogy with works of art. Deductive method derived thinking process and reasoning like from general to scientific.
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.
Northrop Frye was Canadian literary critic. He wrote on “Canadian literature” . he away from the crowd, holding tight to powerful ideas that would change the way people thought about literature. He best known as a most important literary theorists of 20th century. Frye spent his entire professional life teaching at the University of Toronto. where he proposed the idea that all books are based on timeless myths.
1)What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?
Archetypal means ‘Original form'. Archetypal criticism depends heavily on symbols and patterns. It refers to universal symbols, theme , character, images. It repeated throughout literature. It is a term in which Frye 's archetypal criticism strictly categorise works based on their genres which determine how on archetype is to be interpreted in a text .
Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern throughout time and space. There are some universal truths that we can learn by reading .
2)What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'?
Northrop Frye has given a very different idea about Archetypal Criticism by comparing the human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons.
◆. Comedy - spring
◆ Romance – summer
◆ Tragedy – Autumn
◆ Satire – winter
Spring:-
The spring season represents the Comedy. As per the genre of comedy is characterized by the birth of the hero, revival & resurrection. Spring also symbolizes the defeat of winter & darkness.
Summer:-
The season of Summer indicates Romance because Summer is the culmination of life in the seasonal calendar, & the romance genre culminates with some short of triumph usually marriage.
Autumn:-
Autumn season signify the genre of Tragedy. As the autumn is the dying stage of the seasonal calendar that's why the Autumn is parallels to the genre of Tragedy, because the genre of Tragedy is known for the fall on demise of the protagonist.
Winter:-
season of winter denotes the satire genre because of it's darkness. It's a disillusioned & mocking form of the three other genres. It is notes for its darkness, dissolution, the return of chaos & the defeat of heroic figure.
.3)Share your views of Criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.
Northrop frye says on the relation of literature with history and philosophy that literature is the central division of the Humanities, flanked on one side by history and on other side by philosophy and historian deals with events and Philosopher for ideas but critic use both wisdom of philosophy and action of a history. Thus, literature is a connected with history and philosophy both.
4)Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of Shakespeare's Hamlet's Grave Digger's scene.
Inductive method move from scientific to general . We can say that from that scene there is many illustration derived , like Yorick soliloquy , declaration of Love, Hamlet's struggle with Leartes , corruption , blind superstition , loses emotion and at the end universal truth that all human being are moral. so this illustration from that scene , from scientific to general.
5)Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to Music, Painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.
Deductive method moves from general to scientific . some art move in time , like music, and painting. Literature seemed to be intermediate between music and painting , It's words from rhythms with approach a musical sequence of sounds at one of its boundaries , and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphics or pictorial image at the other. Everything in nature that we think of as having some analogy with works of art. Deductive method derived thinking process and reasoning like from general to scientific.
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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