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NORTHROP FRYE..

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***Thinking Activity on the Archetypes of literature by Northrop Frye.. Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature..... 1) What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? =} Archetypal criticism​ is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images and character types in literary work... Archetypal criticism's origin are rooted in two other physhoanalysis,each contributed to literary criticism... James G. Frazer whose the golden bough identified elemental patterns of myth and ritual. Another critic Carl G. Jung who applied the term "Archetypal" to what he called "primordial images"..He also maintained the "collective unconscious"of the human race and are expressed in myths, religion, dreams and private fantasies as well as in work of literature... 2) What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and

Thinking activity on I.A.Richard's Figurative Language

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I.A. Richards: Figurative Language...        ## Ivor Armstrong Richards  – pioneer in the domain of  New Criticism .       ## His path breaking works:- 1.         The Meaning of Meaning – 1923 2.         The Principles of Literary Criticism – 1924 3.        The Practical Criticism  – 1929. a.        Four Kinds of Meaning b.        Two Uses of Language c.         On Simile, Metaphor and Symbol. *In the essay Figurative language Richards gives his justification on three Poems. Here I'm given the analysis of song: 1                      1) हो  ओ … तेरी अखियों का वार जैसे शेर का शिकार तेरा हुस्न धुयंदार जैसे जलता सिगार तेरी अखियों का वार जैसे शेर का शिकार तेरा हुस्न धुयंदार जैसे जलता सिगार तेरे प्यार का नशा कभी आर कभी पार....             Totally worthless song... The lyrics have absolutely no deep meaning. All it has a just few meaning less words..       I mean love is something pure, eternal and platonic and here love is compared wi

Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.The theory he produced, and the poetics he invented to embody it, caused a revolution in English literature. Developed throughout his life, Wordsworth’s understanding of the human mind seems simple enough today, what with the advent of psychoanalysis and the general Freudian acceptance of the importance of childhood in the adult psyche. But in Wordsworth’s time, in what Seamus Heaney has called “Dr. Johnson’s supremely adult eighteenth century,”  where Wordsworth could be closer to his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge began work on a book called Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798 and reissued with Wordsworth’s monumental preface in 1802. The publication of Lyrical Ballads represents a landmark moment for English poetry; it was unlike anything that had come before, and paved the way for everything that has come after. According to Wordswor
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