LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Formalism
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Mythological archetypal
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Post Colonialism
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Post Modernism
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Detailed explanation-1: -An archetype is a universal symbolic pattern. Examples of archetypal characters are the femme fatale, the trickster, the great mother and father, and the dying god. There are archetypal stories as well. Examples are stories of great floods, virgin births, creation, paradise, the underworld, and a final apocalypse.
Detailed explanation-2: -• Archetypal/Mythological Criticism argues that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works, that a text’s meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myths.
Detailed explanation-3: -The archetypal, or myth, critic asks these questions: What mythic elements or archetypal patterns-themes, characters, settings, symbols, imagery, plots, genres, or versions of the hero’s quest-are employed in this literary work? What do they contribute to the work as a whole?
Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous example of an archetype is the Hero. Hero stories have certain elements in common – heroes generally start out in ordinary circumstances, are “called to adventure, ” and in the end must confront their darkest fear in a conflict that deeply transforms the hero.