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The Archetypes of Literature : Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye was an Canadian Educator and literary critic who wrote much on Canadian literature and culture. He was best known literary theorist of the 20th century. He was Educated at the university of Toronto where he studies philosophy and theology. He was Ordained a minister in the united church of Canada in 1936. In 1947 , he published 'Fearful Symmetry : A study of William Black '. In 'Anatomy of Criticism' he challenged the hegemony and the new. In his later work , he supplemented the examination of archetype and genre with practical criticism. He also Studied T.S Eliot , John Milton's Epics , Shakesperean Comedy and Tragedy . 1. what is Archetypal criticism ? What does the Archetypal Critic do? In literary criticism , the term Archetype denotes narrative designs , pattern of Action , character type , themes and images that recur in a wide variety of works of literature as well as in myths , dreams and even in social rituals. Archetype means one kind of

Documentary - Oscar

This is a famous documentary about honor killings in Pakistan won an Oscar on Sunday night having already spurred the country’s government toward toughening laws to protect women. ' A girl in the river' is a documentary film based on a real story of pakistani woman. It is about how she struggle for freedom of her own choice and how she victimize of honour killing. Moni Mohsin Sharmeen in most of her works highlights the inequality with women which was prevailed in her society. She is aware from the current situation and what is needed in market. She doesn't highlight only of the suffering of women but she much aware about the facts that now a days feminism was in prevailing position and the voice in favour of feminism definitely discussed in society. These types of writers are inviting negative comments as for their publicity and There are many places where the writer try to show the reality. Many people not like Arvind Adiga because he shows the reality of India,bad

Structuralism and Literary Criticism

Thinking activity on : Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? you can select any Image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method. Before I start my thinking activity let me tell about Structuralism.     "Structuralism is an approach to Analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant Structure." Structuralism is a theory focused upon the structure of human expression. Structuralism as a form of thought emerged from a reaction against the humanism of Jean-Pauk Sartre's existentialism. Sartre assailed the idea of structure. Structuralism emerged in the 1960s and it was based on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure's work in linguistics was oriented to understanding the structure underlying language and all form of human sing systems. so that Structuralism is associated with the linguistic turn. Gerard Genette and Structuralism criticism :  Gene

Assignment Paper 8 Cultural Studies

Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A. Roll no. : 29 Paper no. : cultural studies Class : sem 2 Topic : myth and Meaning by Levi – Strauss, chapter no 1. The Meeting of Myth and Science Enrolment no. : 20691084190024 Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com College : Department of English Submitted to : Department of English M. K Bhavnagar University. About Author : CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS was a leading social anthropologist. He was Born in 1908 and he was revered as the father of modern anthropology. He was author of Myth and Meaning. He died in Paris in 2009.He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".Lévi-Strauss has identified the historiographical problems that are encountered when attempting to study mythology and oral cultures. About his book :

Assignment Paper 7 Literary Criticism

Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A Roll no. : 29 Paper no. : criticism Topic name : Northrop Frye ; The archetypes of literature Enrolment no : 20691084190024 Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com College : Department of English Submitted to : Department of English M. K Bhavnagar University Northrop Frye : Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist. He was considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.Frye gained international fame with his first book Fearful Symmetry (1947), which led to the reinterpretation of the poetry of William Blake but it was the 'Anatomy Of Criticism' that firmly established him as one of the most brilliant and influential of modern critic. Like other modern critics from I. A. Richards onwards he is impatient with the confusions and contradiction of most extent literary criticism. Frye argues, is the recurrence with various degrees of 'displacement' of certain archetypes in literature

Assignment Paper 6 Victorian Literature

Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A Roll no. : 29 Paper no. : Victorian age Topic name : Victorian poets Enrolment no : 20691084190024 Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com College : Department of English Submitted to : Department of English M. K Bhavnagar University “I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the less : all times I have Enjoy’d Greatly, have Suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name;”                          ( Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson) Introduction : In the history of English literature, there are many periods likes the age of Elizabethan, The puritan age, The age of restoration, 18 th century literature, The age of Romantic, The Victorian age and 20 th century literature. So all age has their own characteristics and writer or poets. I would like to talk about the age Victorian and poets like Tennyson a