INTRODUCTION TO ARCHETYPAL  APPROACH

FACTUALS:

1.       What are the other names of Archetypal approach?

                            Totemic , mythological or ritualistic

2. What is an Archetypal Criticism ?

                            It is the demonstration of some basic cultural pattern of great meaning and great appeal to humanity in a work of art

3. Name the two important figures of the Archetypal approach?

                             Sir James George Frazer & Carl Gustav Jung

4. Name the major works of Frazer ?

                             The Golden Bough (twelve volumes)

5. What is the chief  contribution of Carl Gustav Jung for archetypal criticism?

                              The theory of collective unconsciousness

6. Who are the followers of Frazer and Sir Edward Tylor ?

                             Jane Harrison, F.M. Cornford , Gilbert Murray, Andrew Lang.

7. Who examined the ritualistic basis of Greek comedy in one study and the ritual figure of the Greek god-king in another?

                             Cornford

8. Miss Harrison’s exploration of the social origins of Greek religion is seen in_____________

                           Ancient  Art and Ritual  , 1913.

9. Name any three mythical writers?

                           Robert Graves,  James Joyce and Yeats. 

10. Who retold the story of Psyche and Cupid?

                              C.S.Lewis

11. Who established that rituals and taboos are dealt consciously by primitive man, but unconsciously by Civilized man?

                              Freud

12. What is Myth according to Erich Fromm?

                              Myth is “a message from ourselves to ourselves, a secret language which enables us to treat inner as if outer event”.

13. Archetypal  Criticism aims to discover  and  decode the secret language in literary works.

14. Name the  work of D.H.Lawrence which exhibits various fictitious characters as archetypes?

                           Studies  in Classic American Literature, 1923.

15. What is the classic written by Maud Bodkin of archetypal kind?

                             Archetypal  patterns in poetry ,1934

16. Kenneth Burke relies in his concept of _________

                          Symbolic action

17. According to whom did ‘Artist is often a “medicine man” and the work of art his “medicine”’?

                            Kenneth Burke

18. Name the writers who have studied the ritual patterns in Shakespeare?

                           Collin Still in The Timeless Theme, 1936 and G.Wilson Knight in several of his works.

19.Name the American novels which employed the scheme of Archetypal criticism?

                           The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Moby-Dick

20.Anthropological literature re-establishes us as members of ______________

                          Ancient race of Man.

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t.Githika