ENGL 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Northrop Frye
15 Sep 2016
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No just talking about what is bad in a literary text - focused on exploring possible meanings and making an argument about significances and impacts that the text creates. Individually written but fairly collaborative in that they argue with each other back and forth as ideas are presented and considered (amongst the critics and writers) Common elements form recognizable systems of "structures" meant to explain human behaviour and individual experience. Would look at a painting and consider what type of paint it used and what this means. Argues for clear, recognizable pattern(s) that unite works of literature. These critics therefore seek one idea/word/idea/phrase which would hold. Structuralism only accepts ideas and contents that support it - it also molds and shapes examples to fit its structure. This can lead to inaccuracies and certain ideas being purposefully discarded because they would weaken the structure or reveal that the structure isn"t actually all-encompassing.
