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- Wily veterans, on the other hand, will absorb those details, or possibly overlook them, to find the patterns, the routines, the archetypes at work in the background.†
Chpt Intr. *archetypes = typical examples of different types
- Part of pattern recognition is talent, but a whole lot of it is practice: if you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences.†
Chpt 5
- The story ceases to be locked in the middle of the twentieth century and becomes timeless and archetypal, speaking of the tensions and difficulties that exist always and everywhere between brothers, with all their caring and pain and guilt and pride and love.†
Chpt 7
- While we may not be all that well versed in types and archetypes from the Bible, we generally recognize, whatever our religious affiliation, some of the features that make Christ who he is.†
Chpt 14archetypes = typical examples of different types
- Freud gets help here from Jessie L. Weston, Sir James Frazer, and Carl Jung, all of whom explain a great deal about mythic thinking, fertility myths, and archetypes.†
Chpt 16
- The second concept for our consideration is archetype.†
Chpt 20b
- The late great Canadian critic Northrop Frye took the notion of archetypes from C. G. Jung's psychoanalytical writings and showed that whatever Jung can tell us about our heads, he can tell us a great deal more about our books.†
Chpt 20barchetypes = typical examples of different types
- "Archetype" is a five-dollar word for "pattern," or for the mythic original onwhich a pattern is based.†
Chpt 20b
- You'd think that these components, these archetypes, would wear out with use the way cliche wears out, but they actually work the other way: they take on power with repetition, finding strength in numbers.†
Chpt 20barchetypes = typical examples of different types
- When we hear or see or read one of these instances of archetype, we feel a little frisson of recognition and utter a little satisfied "aha!"†
Chpt 20b
- You can't find the archetype, just as you can't find the pure myths.†
Chpt 20b
- Frye thought the archetypes came from the Bible, or so he said at times, but such a notion won't account for the myths and archetypes that lie behind and inform the works of Homer, say, or those of any storyteller or poet who lacked access to the Judeo-Christian tradition.†
Chpt 20barchetypes = typical examples of different types
- Frye thought the archetypes came from the Bible, or so he said at times, but such a notion won't account for the myths and archetypes that lie behind and inform the works of Homer, say, or those of any storyteller or poet who lacked access to the Judeo-Christian tradition.†
Chpt 20b
- What does matter is that there is this mythic level, the level on which archetype operates and from which we borrow the figure of, for instance, the dying-and-reviving man (or god) or the young boy who must undertake a long journey.†
Chpt 20b
- Those stories—myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature—are always with us.†
Chpt 20b
- Remember, as many commentators have said about the Persephone myth, it encompasses theyouthful female experience, the archetypal acquisition of knowledge of sexuality and of death.†
Chpt 27
- This pattern of entry into adult life, Mansfield intimates, has been a recognizable part of our culture for thousands of years; of course it has always been there, but the myth embodying the archetype has continued unbroken through Western culture since the very early Greeks.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(archetype) a very typical or the original example of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)