330. Theory 05: Archetypal Criticism

Recurring symbols, patterns and narrative structures form the Archetypal world. Northorp Frye and Carl Jung (Jung's Collective Consciousness (eg: doctor wearing a white coat) influenced the Archetypal explanation with its psychological narrative. Frye talks about 'Modes', if the Archetypes are high or low mimetic, romantic, mythic, etc. Joseph Campbell's introduces 'monomyth' in "The Hero with a Thousand Myth" (1949) influenced this theory too. Monomyth is about characters going through certain patterns. Anima and Animus (male and female) and Displacement Theory (mythic patterns become displaced and becomes underlying structure) of Frye emboldens the theory further. Shadow Archetype represents the dark aspects a bit more. It is suppressed or annihilated but comes out. Maud Bodkin's of 1930s is Jungian and Frye's Theory of Symbols upheld the theory.
James Fraser influenced the criticism a lot. He talks about the patterns in storytelling.
Anis Pratt talks about the female Archetypes are different than the male ones.
Robert Graves was also an Archetypal critic.
There is a quest narrative structure in the Archetypal Criticism.
Leslie Fielder talks about the pattern of Archetypes in Amlit.

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