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Originating in 1934 with Maud Bodkin, it gained major influence through Northrop Frye’s work. The notes outline archetypes and mythoi linked to seasons, key archetypal thinkers including Carl Jung and Frye, and Frye’s analytical framework using centripetal and centrifugal methods, plus major books such as Anatomy of Criticism.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":20,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/exam/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/cultural-studies-archetypal-literary-criticism-and-northrop-frye/318435/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/cultural-studies-archetypal-literary-criticism-and-northrop-frye/318435.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Ivy","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-27","2026-09-20",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",14,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What does archetypal (myth) criticism focus on in a literary work?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"It interprets texts by emphasizing recurring myths and archetypes that appear in narrative symbols, images, and character types.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"When did archetypal criticism first emerge and why did it grow in popularity?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"It appeared in 1934 after Maud Bodkin’s work and became especially popular in the 1940s and 1950s due to Northrop Frye’s contributions.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"How does Northrop Frye describe his critical method?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"He distinguishes centripetal criticism, which moves inward toward a text’s structure, from centrifugal criticism, which moves away from the text toward society.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},318435,1790242370,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":19,"category_name":20,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":31,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},549758252649,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/8000253669c5317157?_k=1778319167496531819","Cultural Studies Page 1 of 50  \nArchetypal Literary Criticism or Myth Criticism  \n! It 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 a literary work.  \n! This criticism appeared in 1934 when Maud bodkin published his  \nArchetypal Pattern in Poetry.  \n! Archetypal criticism was most popular in 1940’s and 1950’s, largely due to the work of Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye.  \n! The origin of Archetypal Criticism is rooted in the two other academic disciplines i.e. Social Anthropology and Psychoanalysis .  \n! Archetypes are recurring ideas, motifs, images and patterns found in a variety of works. Some common archetypes are water, sun, moon, colour, circles, the great mother, wise old man etc .  \n! There are two famous archetypal critics: Carl Jung and Northrop Frye. Jungian critics focused on the genesis of archetypes, while Frye focuses on their analysis .  \n! The major archetypal/myth critics includes: Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson, Philip Wheelwright, Leslie Fiedler, Northrop Frye, Maud Bodkin and G.Wilson Knight .  \n! Frye proposed four ‘Mythoi’ (types of plots) that formed the basis of four major genres associated with the seasons of the years :  \n Comedy :Spring  \n Romance: Summer  \n Tragedy: Fall or Autumn  \n Satire: Winter  \n! The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer.  \nCultural Studies Page 2 of 50  \n! In the use of myth, critics were heavily indebted to Carl Jung’s theory of Collective Unconsciousness .  \n! Archetype constitute the structure of the collective unconsciousness by Carl Jung, they are: psychic innate disposition to experience and represents basic human behaviour and situations . Thus mother-child relationship is governed by mother Archetype, and father-child relationship by father Archetype.  \n! Birth, death, power and failure are controlled by Archetypes .  \nNorthrop Frye (1912-1991)  \n! Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and theorist gained International fame with his first look Fearful Symmetry (1947) which led to the interpretation of the poetry of William Blake .  \n! In 1957 he published a theory of literary criticism entitled Anatomy of Criticism, it was a synoptic overview of the principles and techniques of literary criticism that attempted to uncover and categories the underlying myths and archetypes of world literature .  \n! In Anatomy of Criticism, Frye devised a framework of analysis based upon Mythoi on the season/cycles in the natural world where literature is created. The four Mythoi were:  \n Comedy: corresponding to Spring  \n Tragedy: corresponding to Autumn  \n Romance: corresponding to Summer  \n Irony and Satire: corresponding to Winter  \n! Frye used the terms ‘Centripetal’and ‘Centrifugal’ to describe his critical method. Centripetal criticism was that which moved inwards towards the structure of a text, while Centrifugal criticism moved away from the text and towards the society.  \nCultural Studies Page 3 of 50  \n! Another important book of Frye was on the Bible, The Great Code (1982) , which was about the possibility of human enlightenment and freedom through a radical new understanding of the symbolic language of the Bible .  \n! He stressed the larger imaginative patterns from which all literary works are constructed and the recurring importance of literature’s underlying archetypes .  \n! Frye asked: “What if criticism is a Science as well as an Art?”  \n! Frye collected his desperate writings on Canadian writing and painting in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971) .  \n! He coined the phrase ‘The Garrison Mentality’ a theme that summarises Canadian Literature .  \n! Northrop Frye’s Generic Plots, mentioned about ‘The Comic’,","cbCaiaReRsDATnC3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaReRsDATnC3","pdf",318375,"English","# Archetypal Literary Criticism or Myth Criticism\n## Origins and key ideas\n## Archetypes and mythoi\n## Northrop Frye and major works\n# Russian Formalism (1910-1960)\n## Core features and influence","[{\"question\":\"What does archetypal (myth) criticism focus on in a literary work?\",\"answer\":\"It interprets texts by emphasizing recurring myths and archetypes that appear in narrative symbols, images, and character types.\"},{\"question\":\"When did archetypal criticism first emerge and why did it grow in popularity?\",\"answer\":\"It appeared in 1934 after Maud Bodkin’s work and became especially popular in the 1940s and 1950s due to Northrop Frye’s contributions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Northrop Frye describe his critical method?\",\"answer\":\"He distinguishes centripetal criticism, which moves inward toward a text’s structure, from centrifugal criticism, which moves away from the text toward society.\"}]","Cultural Studies - Archetypal Literary Criticism and Northrop Frye | PDF",1789940325,126]