IAT 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Northrop Frye, Anagoge, Self-Denial

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Interactive Arts and Technology
• Course: IAT 313
• Professor: Michael Filimowicz

Document Summary

Character dynamics: characters, broadly story world participant, any individual or group occurring in a narrative, more narrowly participants in the narrated domain excluding the narrator (presenter of info) and narratee (audience) Interactions "doing lots of stuff" replaces character understanding and analysis: character archetypes, archetypal patterns are complexes of properties found across wide range of literary work. Internal to the specific narrative work: words, names, cultural traditions, anagogic universal, highest, spiritual, from the greek "anagoge" which means to climb a staircase, examples, hero. Shadow: mentor, allies, guardian, trickster, herald, propp"s 8 character types, hero, often protagonist, hero tales = epics. Iconic characters: nationalistic function identity building. Fictive individualism we are all heroes of our stories, psychological currents. Supports the hero in their quest: princess"s father, key figure for hero to persuade. Self sacrifice: exile, characters seen as either supporting the plot (e. g. heroes, helpers, antagonists) or the mood (filling out the scene, background and secondary characters, etc. )