Canadian literary critic who developed a systematic archetypal criticism in Anatomy of Criticism, arguing that all literature derives from a small set of archetypal narrative patterns ultimately rooted in seasonal myth.
Proposed that literary criticism can become a coherent science by identifying the archetypal narrative forms (comedy, romance, tragedy, irony) that structure all literature — connecting the mythological imagination to a systematic poetics.
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