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Literary Criticism Questions and Answers

141.

Who among the following is not a myth critic ?

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

Raymond Williams is not a myth critic. He is a Marxist cultural critic, associated with cultural materialism in Culture and Society and The Country and the City.

Robert Graves, with The White Goddess, Francis Fergusson in The Idea of a Theater and Northrop Frye in Anatomy of Criticism are all considered myth or archetypal critics.

Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, Fergusson's study of drama and Graves's work on myth and poetry are the usual examples of the myth or archetypal school.

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142.

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 ?

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

The second narrative genre in Frye's scheme is romance, the genre of summer. In Anatomy of Criticism he associates comedy with spring, romance with summer, tragedy with autumn and irony and satire with winter.

Epic, fiction and novel are not in this scheme of four mythoi, so they cannot fill the blank between comedy and tragedy.

The four mythoi are linked with the seasons: spring with comedy, summer with romance, autumn with tragedy and winter with irony and satire, which is why romance is the second.

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