Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of MythIn Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth, Glen Robert Gill compares Frye's theories about myth to those of three other major twentieth-century mythologists: C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Mircea Eliade. Gill explores the theories of these respective thinkers as they relate to Frye's discussions of the phenomenological nature of myth, as well as its religious, literary, and psychological significance. Gill substantiates Frye's work as both more radical and more tenable than that of his three contemporaries. Eliade's writings are shown to have a metaphysical basis that abrogates an understanding of myth as truly phenomenological, while Jung's theory of the collective unconscious emerges as similarly problematic. Likewise, Gill argues, Campbell's work, while incorporating some phenomenological progressions, settles on a questionable metaphysical foundation. Gill shows how, in contrast to these other mythologists, Frye's theory of myth - first articulated in Fearful Symmetry (1947) and culminating in Words with Power (1990) - is genuinely phenomenological. With excursions into fields such as literary theory, depth psychology, theology, and anthropology, Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth is essential to the understanding of Frye's important mythological work. |
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... hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder : fabulous forces are there encountered and a deci- sive victory is won : the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow ...
... ( Hero 101 ) Predictably , the progression through these challenges prepares the hero ( the male hero , obviously ) for Campbell's archetypes of hierogamy , ' The Meeting with the Goddess ' and ' Woman as Temptress , ' which , respec ...
... hero may require ' Rescue from Without , ' which is to say , ' the world may have to come and get him ... for the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the wakened state ' ( Hero 207 ) . In either case , ' The ...
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The Platonic Patterns of Mircea Eliade | 21 |
C G Jung and the Archetypes of | 45 |
Joseph Campbell and | 73 |
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