Archetypal criticism
by
Northrop Frye
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This is my blog is based on our thinking activity task . So first I will give you brief introduction about Northrop Frye.
♦️ Northrop Frye :-
"The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thoughts (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature but to show you a would completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind".
~ Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye his full name is Herman Northrop Frye ( born July 14 1912 , Died Jan. 23 1991 ) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century . he was the first critic to postulate a systematic theory of criticism 'the workout' in his own word a unified commentary on the theory of literary criticism . Frye identified formulas as the convential myth and metaphor which he calles " archetypes ".
◾ What is archetypal criticism ? what does the archetypal critic do ?
" In the literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature ".
Archetypal criticism as it applies to literature is a form of criticism "that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myth and archetypes." Rather than looking at the other aspect of the literary criticism focuses on searched the archetype present . Archetypes are "an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated " with regards to literature, this usually refers to ancient model like those form myth . Carl G. Jung (1875 - 1961) applied the term "archetype" to what he called "primordial image" to 'phychic residue' of repeated patterns of experience in our very ancient which, he maintained, survive in the 'collective unconscious' of the human race and are expressed in myth, religion, dream and private fantasies as well as in the work of literature .
◾ What is a frye trying prove by giving analogy of physics to nature and criticism to literature ?
Northrop Frye's Archetypal of Literature, provided a structural study of literature and its recurrent themes, techniques, symbols, etc. in body of knowledge and to distinguish it from its study I.e. criticism. Just as physics is the study of nature. However one can't possible 'learn literature' and therefore order to establish literature as an organised body of knowledge, criticism should be treated from literature. Hence criticism should be treated as a science and subsequently be separated from literature. Hence criticism should be treated as an individual branches of knowledge just a physics and not as a sub topic of literary studies as it is often considered .
◼️ Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, paintings , rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method .
The criticism of literature is much more hampered by the representational of fallacy then even the criticism of painting. That this is why we are apt to think of narrative as a sequential representation of events in outside "life" and of meaning as a reflection of some external "idea." properly used as critical term, an author's narrative is his linear movement: his meaning is the integrity of his a completed form. Similarly an image is not merely a verbal replica of an external object but any unit of verbal structure seen as part of total pattern or rhythm .
♦️ Music & painting :-
Some art moves in time, like music; other are presented in a space, like painting. In both causes the organising principle is the recurrence, which is called rhythm when it is temporal and pattern when it is spatial . Literature seems to be intermediate betweenm musicand painting: its words form rhythms which approach a musical sequence of sound at one of it boundaries, and from patterns which approach the hieroglyphics or pictorial image at the other .
♦️ Rhythm :-
Rhythm is deeply found on the natural cycle, and everything in natural that we think of as having some analogy with work of art, like the flower or the bird’s song grows out of a profound synchronization between an organization and the rhythms of its environment especially that of the solar year. With animals some expressions of synchronization, like the mating dances of birds, could almost be called rituals . But in human life ritual seems to be something of a voluntary effort to recapture a lost rapport with the natural cycle .
♦️ Patterns :-
Patterns of imagery, on the other hand, or fragments of significance, are oracular in origin, and derive from the epiphanic moment, the flash of instantaneous comprehension with no direct reference to time, the importance of which is indicated by Cassirer in Myth and Language. By the time we get them, in the form of proverbs, riddles,commandments, and etiological folk tales, there is already a considerable element of narrative in them .
♦️ Refer to the Indian seasonal grade. 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's Archetypal of Literature, provided a structural study of literature and its recurrent themes, techniques, symbols, etc. in body of knowledge and to distinguish it from its study I.e. criticism. Just as physics is the study of nature. However one can't possible 'learn literature' and therefore order to establish literature as an organised body of knowledge, criticism should be treated from literature. Hence criticism should be treated as a science and subsequently be separated from literature. Hence criticism should be treated as an individual branches of knowledge just a physics and not as a sub topic of literary studies as it is often considered .
◼️ Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, paintings , rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method .
The criticism of literature is much more hampered by the representational of fallacy then even the criticism of painting. That this is why we are apt to think of narrative as a sequential representation of events in outside "life" and of meaning as a reflection of some external "idea." properly used as critical term, an author's narrative is his linear movement: his meaning is the integrity of his a completed form. Similarly an image is not merely a verbal replica of an external object but any unit of verbal structure seen as part of total pattern or rhythm .
♦️ Music & painting :-
Some art moves in time, like music; other are presented in a space, like painting. In both causes the organising principle is the recurrence, which is called rhythm when it is temporal and pattern when it is spatial . Literature seems to be intermediate betweenm musicand painting: its words form rhythms which approach a musical sequence of sound at one of it boundaries, and from patterns which approach the hieroglyphics or pictorial image at the other .
♦️ Rhythm :-
Rhythm is deeply found on the natural cycle, and everything in natural that we think of as having some analogy with work of art, like the flower or the bird’s song grows out of a profound synchronization between an organization and the rhythms of its environment especially that of the solar year. With animals some expressions of synchronization, like the mating dances of birds, could almost be called rituals . But in human life ritual seems to be something of a voluntary effort to recapture a lost rapport with the natural cycle .
♦️ Patterns :-
Patterns of imagery, on the other hand, or fragments of significance, are oracular in origin, and derive from the epiphanic moment, the flash of instantaneous comprehension with no direct reference to time, the importance of which is indicated by Cassirer in Myth and Language. By the time we get them, in the form of proverbs, riddles,commandments, and etiological folk tales, there is already a considerable element of narrative in them .
♦️ Refer to the Indian seasonal grade. If you can, please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach and apply Indian seasonal grid in the interpretation.
" મોર બની થનગાટ કરે " is traditional Gujarati song written by Gujarati poet and social reformer Zaverchand Meghani . In this poem poet describe the beauty of monsoon . Here we find that મોર means peacock is symbol of love and happiness .
♣️ Religion and Literature :-
we all know that India literature is influenced by religion. " Vedas" are the most ancient Indian literature. Puranas and two great epics ramayan and mahabharat hold considerable significance even today. Religious influence upon Indian literature made a transition from oral to written . Religion has always been an integral part of the Literary tradition : many cononical and non-cononical text engage extensively with religious ideas.
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