Archetype Criticism and Northrop Frye's Theory of Genres (Lecture in Literary Theory)

[@AudioPervert1]

Many thanks. Especially for the Four Seasons Of Literature. Kudos to Northrop Fry..

[@IohannesRhetor]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johannswiss2878]

Oh, I forgot to say that teaching assisting the Frye course at Vic must have been a real joy. I'm glad you talked about that. And if I might probe a bit, what did you do your dissertation on? Could you tell me a bit about that? thx

[@IohannesRhetor]

It was actually pretty stressful. I was 24, in way over my head and half the students were older and better read than me! But I learned a lot. My dissertation is on the interdecting discourses of advice/counsel and satire in medieval literature, and how both serve to construct the authority of the author/speaker.

[@MartinBraonain]

Good work - great summary

[@johannswiss2878]

Great synopsis about Frye's contributions to literary criticism. I haven't heard many lectures about Frye, and the last one I watched (I won't mention the channel) I wasn't impressed with. Nevertheless when this video came across my feed I was excited, and I wasn't disappointed. I read Frye for fun, even though I am still working through his corpus. I really liked his Blake Book, and of course his Code and Words. It's too bad--from my naive impression--there seems to be a bit of a disdain or at least a distancing from Frye in literary studies. For example, the Yale Open Courses Literary Theory course by Paul H. Fry doesn't even briefly mention Frye from what I remember of it. Maybe he is out of fashion or I am misunderstanding? As well, I started reading White because he likes Frye. I am glad you mentioned White; maybe consider making a recording about his work? Anyway, thanks for the upload!

[@udewulufavour9092]

Thanks for the analysis, it really helped me a lot but my question goes thus, what is Frye’s take on the Trickster figure?

[@IohannesRhetor]

the trickster is associated with the giant-killer, and also the psychopomp. not sure the trickster is as important to Frye as Jung?

[@sterlingjared]

Thanks, fun stuff! Unfortunately all the source links are broken, any advice for finding these graphics?

[@IohannesRhetor]

Thank you! Can you tell me what source links you're talking about? The graphics I mostly made myself in Adobe express and PowerPoint, adapted from diagrams in The Anatomy of Criticism.

[@dionysianapollomarx]

Mircea Eliade is another unified theorist

[@IohannesRhetor]

Yes! And Durkheim.