LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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it requires a careful reading
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it only analyzes one aspect
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it is based on emotions
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it does only relies on the text alone
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Detailed explanation-1: -Archetypal Criticism. Archetypal 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-2: -Major Tenets Archetypal criticism is concerned with the way cycles and reiterating patterns of tradition, culture, inborn images, and beliefs affect literary works. It operates with the idea that certain symbols represent the same ideas no matter the time or place.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks put it, “archetype, borrowed from Jung, means a primordial image, a part of the collective unconscious, the psychic residue of numberless experiences of the same kind, and thus part of the inherited response-pattern of the race” (Literary Criticism 709).
Detailed explanation-4: -One basic objection is that archetypal criticism does not evaluate literature but merely explains the reason for the appeal of certain kinds of writings. The second charge is that the archetypal critics are known more for their ingenuity than for the validity of what they have to say.