NORTHROP FRYE..
***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