06 January 2020

Thinking Activity:Northrop Frye

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This task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir head of department of English Maharaj KrishnaKumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

# Northrop Frye:-
In his native Canada. Northrop Frye's intellectual stature made him something of a national oracle and celebrity. In the world of literary theory and criticism, he was also a formidable and revered figure. Herman Northrop Frye was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, received his B.A from the University of Toronto in 1933. Studied theology there at Emmanuel college, and was ordained a minister in 1936.He received an M.A. from Merton college, Oxford,in 1940.


In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature."
                     
# His Books:-
Fearful Symmetry (1947)
Fables of Identity (1963)
The Modern Century(1967)
The Stubborn Structure (1970)
The Secular Scripture(1976)
The Great Code(1982)  etc.



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

Archer "first" and typos "form"


•An archetype means " Original form"
•It refers to the universal symbols, theme, characters and images we find repeated throughout literature.

Example:- In Native American literature, Coyote is an archetype of the trickster.

Archetype or Mythological critics look for underlying, recurrent patterns in literature.

According to Carl Jung, these patterns are embedded deep in the "collective unconscious" and involve "racial memories" of situations, events, relationship from time immemorial.


                   

2.What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of 'Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature ?




1) Spring (Comedy):-
Here Fry connected Spring with Comedy because Spring and Comedy both are symbols of something because new, birth, development, revival and resurrection and also symbolise dark to light, dry to greenness..etc.
               
2) Summer (Romance):-
Here talked about season of England not Indian . So Summer season denotes romance because generally we can saw people marriage in summer time. Another things is that culminations to triumph both these term. All are symbolize romance through summer season.
                               

3)Autumn(Tragedy):-
Autumn season denotes tragedy and it is symbol of dying life. We can saw in autumn all leaves of tree fallen down and also tree became lifeless. Similarly hero fallen down and protagonist became tragic hero.
                               

4) Winter (Satire & Irony):-
Winter is season of Darkness. We can saw in winter season is very coldest and days are also shorter and night are longer. Satire reflects the darkness of literature, It is disillusioned and mocking from of literature.
                                 

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