ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM
What is Archetypal Criticism?
1. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include Code:
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Answer: (A)
Northrop Frye
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots’?
(A) The comic
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric
(D) The ironic
Answer: (C)
2. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’ ?
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) I. A. Richards
(C) William Empson
(D) Northrop Frye
Answer: D
3. Who among the following is a Canadian critic ?
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye
Answer: D
4. Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below:
(1) Georg Lukacs
(2) Louis Althusser
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye
Answer: 4
5. Northrop Frye’s influential work, Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the subtitle indicates, four essays. Which of the following is NOT one among them ?
(1) “Archetypal Criticism : Theory of Myths”
(2) “Typological Criticism : Theory of Types”
(3) “Historical Criticism : Theory of Modes”
(4) “Ethical Criticism : Theory of Symbols”
Answer: 2
6. Who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian writing?
(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) Michael Ondaatjee
(4) Joy Kogawa
Answer: 2
7. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one ?
(A) Romance
(B) Epic
(C) Fiction
(D) Novel
Answer: A
8. Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye’s typology of literature?
A. Mythos of spring: Comedy
B. Mythos of summer: Satire
C. Mythos of autumn: Tragedy
D. Mythos of winter: Romance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and B only
B. A and C only
C. B and D only
D. B and D only
Answer: B
Maud Bodkin
1. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?
1. Maud Bodkin
2. Hans-Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Wolfgang Iser
Answer:1