ENGL 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Northrop Frye, Oedipus Complex, Psychoanalysis
12 Feb 2016
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Engl 3q93 archetypes of criticism northrop frye. This work is a good epitome of frye"s thinking. Frye like freud, is as much interested in cultural issues as he is in strictly critical issues. How do they synthesize if they do: frye"s object of analysis is this repetitiveness of story and narrative. Freud discusses the same object about how narrative structures repeat themselves freud clues in on particular narrative structures that repeat themselves like the narrative structure of oedipus rex, the. Break the readings argument down to produce a schematic argument on the steps. We read these excerpts to understand how the argument proceeds. There is a moment in this reading that is crucial to frye"s argument the relationship to the individual literary work and genre. Canadian critic, his criticism is often seen as the combination of what has been called the myth and ritual school of criticism.
