ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Northrop Frye, World War I, Ageas
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Trying to validate literature when science was taking over because it was winning wars (e. g. the bomb) Epic (until middle ages): heroic ; involves a hero with supernatural powers, wars, and origin stories. Romances (middle ages 1700s): high mimetic ; involves a romantic heterosexual couple (women exist! ), including a man of high status (e. g. knight), and the goal to get the girl. Novel (1700s wwi): low mimetic ; involves common people and even peasants. Modernism (wwi present): pseudo-epic ; rejecting the victorian age as it didn"t work out too well and returning to stories/events from before the middle ages to revitalize them. Joyce went out of his way to make himself an exile. Comes from the concentration on the centrality of the catholic church (e. g. rituals in epics) Exile as a subject james joyce is also ulysses. A long and complicated story of one 24-hour period in 1906. Retrospection or looking back is present in everything.
