Archetypal literary criticism : Northrop frye : Que:1 What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? Archetypal literary criticism is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works. Archetypal criticism argues that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works, that a text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myths. Archetypal criticism also recurrent items from elemental and universal pattern in the human psyche. The Archetypal criticism means identifying pattern of action, characters type and theme in literature as well as in myth, dreams and social rituals. Archetypal analysis represents each "individual" in a data set as a mixture of "in- dividuals of ...
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