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Northrop Frye An Anatomy  of  Criticism
Reading the poetry of William Blake, I realized that there was a basic mythology and  set of symbols that supports all Western literature. A Bit of Background This theory is presented in Frye’s Book  A Fearful Symetry
Four Types of Criticism Rhetorical Archetypal Ethical Historical C
Correspondence Historical Ethical Archetypal Rhetorical Symbol Myth Mode Genre Type of Criticism Theory   of Literature
Historical Criticism: The Modes of Literature PART ONE
Three Aspects of  Mode ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],From Aristotle
B. Mode  in  Historical Period Ironic :  narrations of bondage, frustration, and absurdity Contemporary Low Mimetic :  realistic dramas of common people Modern High Mimetic :  elevated emotional dramas of great people Renaissance Romantic :  legend, folklore; epic quests; beast tales; founding of societies Medieval Mythic : c reation stories; stories about gods and forces of nature  Primitive, Ancient, Classical Corresponding  Literary Mode Historical  Period
General Historical Periods 400 to 800  Dark Ages Athenian City State, The Greek and Roman Empires ; Greek Drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles) & Philosophy (Plato); Aesop; Sappho; Roman Poetry (Virgil, Ovid), Neo-Platonic Allegory & Christian Apologetic & Apocalyptic (The Gospels, Plotinus, Boethius, Augustine)  500 BC to 400 AD Classical Historical & Literary Exemplars Time Frame Period Name The World Wars ; Decadence, Symbolism, Existentialism, Deconstruction (Huysmans, Rimbaud, Wilde, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Proust, Mann, Camus, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Pynchon) 1900 to Present Contemporary – Post Modern Revolution ; Literary Movements; Romantic Poetry & the Rise of the Novel; Romantic (Blake, Byron, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Hawthorne, Poe); Victorian (Dickens, Austen); Realist (Hardy, Flaubert, Melville);  Russian  (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky)  1650 to 1900 Modern Formation of European Nation States ; Neo-Classicism; Drama and Poetry (Spencer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ronsard, Racine, Moliere, Petrarch, Boccacio, Milton) 1400 to 1650 Renaissance Feudalism & Christendom ; Charlemagne’s Frankish Kingdom; Epic and Lyrical Poetry;  Beowulf ,  The Song of Roland,  Troubadour Poems; Grail Legends, Celtic Folklore; Norse epic  The Nibelungenlied;  Dante,  Divine Comedy;  Chaucer,  Canterbury Tales 800 to 1400 Medieval Development of the Fertile Crescent ; the myths of Egypt, Israel, & Greece (Homer & Hesiod, The Bible) to 500 BC Ancient
C. Mode   as  Content of Narrative ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Mode Historical Period crossed with  Elevation of Character excluded from human society Non-Person Ironic powers common to humanity Person Low Mimetic superior in degree to persons but not nature King/Leader High Mimetic superior in degree to persons and nature Hero/King Romantic superior in kind to persons and nature God Mythic Relative Power of Character Character Historical Mode
Mode Historical Period Crossed with Content of Narrative Ironic Comedy Tragic Isolation Ironic New Comedy Pathetic Low Mimetic Cathartic  Cathartic High Mimetic Idyllic Elegian Romantic Apollonian Dionysian Mythic Thematic Form Comic  Form Tragic Form Historical Mode
The Tragic Modes Defined pity without moralizations; sadness without identification Tragic Isolation Ironic pity & fear communicated externally; sentimental sadness; reaction to injustice Pathetic (domestic tragedy) Low Mimetic purgation of union of pity & fear Cathartic High Mimetic melancholy; passing of time of heroes Elegiac Romantic death agony of a god; passing of spirit out of nature Dionysiac Mythical Description/ Feeling Communicated TYPE of TRAGEDY Modal Category
The Comic Modes Defined Play at human sacrifice (inversion of the pharmakos) Ironic Comedy Ironic A new society forms around an ostracized poor man or degraded woman New Comedy  (domestic comedy) Low Mimetic Hero constructs his own society in the face of adversity Cathartic  (social comedy) High Mimetic Hero realizes an idealized life in the country Idyllic Romance Hero accepted by a society of gods Apollonian Myth Description/ Feeling Communicated Type of Comedy Modal Category
The Continuum of Ironic Comedy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Satire Comedy of Manners
PART TWO Ethical  Criticism : The Theory  of Symbols
The Theory of Symbols Monad Anagogic 4 Archetype Mythical 3 Image Formal 2 Motif & Sign Literal/Descriptive 1 Kind of Symbol Kind of Writing (Phase)
Mimesis: The Imitation of Nature Nature Represented as a  Process Nature Represented as a  Structure In the  Mythical Phase In the  Formal Phase
Notes on Formal Criticism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
PART THREE Archetypal  Criticism Theory of Myths
WINTER FALL SUMMER SPRING
Mythical Narrative: Two Movements Cyclical Ascending ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Types of Mythical  Imagery Apocalyptic Demonic U N D I S P L A C E D  D I S P L A C E D Analogy  of Innocence Analogy  of Nature and Reason Analogy of Experience Death Life
[object Object],[object Object]
Apocalyptic Imagery ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Patterns of Identity in  Apocalyptic Imagery One building or one stone City MINERAL One tree Garden, Farm or Park VEGATABLE One lamb Flock ANIMAL One person Community HUMAN One god Pantheon DIVINE INDIVIDUAL SOCIETY WORLD
PART FOUR Rhetorical  Criticism Theory  of Genres
Structural Definition of Rhetoric ,[object Object],[object Object],Logic Grammar ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],&
Per se  Definition of Rhetoric ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Radical of Representation The  radical of representation  is the idealized relation between author and audience.  Difference in genre relies not on topical considerations (science fiction, romance, mystery), nor in length (e.g. epics are long, lyrics are short), but in the radical of representation.
Applied Literature  -- The use of literary art to reenforce the power of argument 2.  Persuasive  Language Fiction  – the creation of a hypothetical verbal structure; the  for its own sake  of literature 1.  Ornamental Language Relation to Literary Purpose Dual Purpose of Rhetoric
The Four Genres ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
 

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Anatomy Of Criticism

  • 1. Northrop Frye An Anatomy of Criticism
  • 2. Reading the poetry of William Blake, I realized that there was a basic mythology and set of symbols that supports all Western literature. A Bit of Background This theory is presented in Frye’s Book A Fearful Symetry
  • 3. Four Types of Criticism Rhetorical Archetypal Ethical Historical C
  • 4. Correspondence Historical Ethical Archetypal Rhetorical Symbol Myth Mode Genre Type of Criticism Theory of Literature
  • 5. Historical Criticism: The Modes of Literature PART ONE
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  • 8. B. Mode in Historical Period Ironic : narrations of bondage, frustration, and absurdity Contemporary Low Mimetic : realistic dramas of common people Modern High Mimetic : elevated emotional dramas of great people Renaissance Romantic : legend, folklore; epic quests; beast tales; founding of societies Medieval Mythic : c reation stories; stories about gods and forces of nature Primitive, Ancient, Classical Corresponding Literary Mode Historical Period
  • 9. General Historical Periods 400 to 800 Dark Ages Athenian City State, The Greek and Roman Empires ; Greek Drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles) & Philosophy (Plato); Aesop; Sappho; Roman Poetry (Virgil, Ovid), Neo-Platonic Allegory & Christian Apologetic & Apocalyptic (The Gospels, Plotinus, Boethius, Augustine) 500 BC to 400 AD Classical Historical & Literary Exemplars Time Frame Period Name The World Wars ; Decadence, Symbolism, Existentialism, Deconstruction (Huysmans, Rimbaud, Wilde, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Proust, Mann, Camus, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Pynchon) 1900 to Present Contemporary – Post Modern Revolution ; Literary Movements; Romantic Poetry & the Rise of the Novel; Romantic (Blake, Byron, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Hawthorne, Poe); Victorian (Dickens, Austen); Realist (Hardy, Flaubert, Melville); Russian (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky) 1650 to 1900 Modern Formation of European Nation States ; Neo-Classicism; Drama and Poetry (Spencer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ronsard, Racine, Moliere, Petrarch, Boccacio, Milton) 1400 to 1650 Renaissance Feudalism & Christendom ; Charlemagne’s Frankish Kingdom; Epic and Lyrical Poetry; Beowulf , The Song of Roland, Troubadour Poems; Grail Legends, Celtic Folklore; Norse epic The Nibelungenlied; Dante, Divine Comedy; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales 800 to 1400 Medieval Development of the Fertile Crescent ; the myths of Egypt, Israel, & Greece (Homer & Hesiod, The Bible) to 500 BC Ancient
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  • 11. Mode Historical Period crossed with Elevation of Character excluded from human society Non-Person Ironic powers common to humanity Person Low Mimetic superior in degree to persons but not nature King/Leader High Mimetic superior in degree to persons and nature Hero/King Romantic superior in kind to persons and nature God Mythic Relative Power of Character Character Historical Mode
  • 12. Mode Historical Period Crossed with Content of Narrative Ironic Comedy Tragic Isolation Ironic New Comedy Pathetic Low Mimetic Cathartic Cathartic High Mimetic Idyllic Elegian Romantic Apollonian Dionysian Mythic Thematic Form Comic Form Tragic Form Historical Mode
  • 13. The Tragic Modes Defined pity without moralizations; sadness without identification Tragic Isolation Ironic pity & fear communicated externally; sentimental sadness; reaction to injustice Pathetic (domestic tragedy) Low Mimetic purgation of union of pity & fear Cathartic High Mimetic melancholy; passing of time of heroes Elegiac Romantic death agony of a god; passing of spirit out of nature Dionysiac Mythical Description/ Feeling Communicated TYPE of TRAGEDY Modal Category
  • 14. The Comic Modes Defined Play at human sacrifice (inversion of the pharmakos) Ironic Comedy Ironic A new society forms around an ostracized poor man or degraded woman New Comedy (domestic comedy) Low Mimetic Hero constructs his own society in the face of adversity Cathartic (social comedy) High Mimetic Hero realizes an idealized life in the country Idyllic Romance Hero accepted by a society of gods Apollonian Myth Description/ Feeling Communicated Type of Comedy Modal Category
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  • 16. PART TWO Ethical Criticism : The Theory of Symbols
  • 17. The Theory of Symbols Monad Anagogic 4 Archetype Mythical 3 Image Formal 2 Motif & Sign Literal/Descriptive 1 Kind of Symbol Kind of Writing (Phase)
  • 18. Mimesis: The Imitation of Nature Nature Represented as a Process Nature Represented as a Structure In the Mythical Phase In the Formal Phase
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  • 20. PART THREE Archetypal Criticism Theory of Myths
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  • 23. Types of Mythical Imagery Apocalyptic Demonic U N D I S P L A C E D D I S P L A C E D Analogy of Innocence Analogy of Nature and Reason Analogy of Experience Death Life
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  • 26. Patterns of Identity in Apocalyptic Imagery One building or one stone City MINERAL One tree Garden, Farm or Park VEGATABLE One lamb Flock ANIMAL One person Community HUMAN One god Pantheon DIVINE INDIVIDUAL SOCIETY WORLD
  • 27. PART FOUR Rhetorical Criticism Theory of Genres
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  • 30. The Radical of Representation The radical of representation is the idealized relation between author and audience. Difference in genre relies not on topical considerations (science fiction, romance, mystery), nor in length (e.g. epics are long, lyrics are short), but in the radical of representation.
  • 31. Applied Literature -- The use of literary art to reenforce the power of argument 2. Persuasive Language Fiction – the creation of a hypothetical verbal structure; the for its own sake of literature 1. Ornamental Language Relation to Literary Purpose Dual Purpose of Rhetoric
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