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Mythological Criticism

Mythological Criticism . Definition . Definition : Examines the artist as a humanist----her common humanity by tracing how the individual imagination uses myths and symbols common to different cultures and times. Example: Ring on your left ring finger usually symbolizes marriage.

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Mythological Criticism

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  1. Mythological Criticism

  2. Definition • Definition: Examines the artist as a humanist----her common humanity by tracing how the individual imagination uses myths and symbols common to different cultures and times. • Example: Ring on your left ring finger usually symbolizes marriage.

  3. Write a few sentences about what you think these quotes mean: • “Myth is fundamental, the dramatic representation of our deepest instinctual life, of a primary awareness of man in the universe, capable of many faces, on which many opinions and attitudes depend.” • “Myth is a story- some fact, some fiction- that, for various reasons, people regard as demonstrations of inner meaning of the universe, and human life.”

  4. Communal Understanding • Collective understandings and communal thought- transcends time and unites past with present. Then it reaches into the future.

  5. Read! • “Jabberwocky”

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