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archetype /ar·che·type/ (ahr´kĕ-tīp) an ideal, original, or standard type or form.
archetype [är′kətīp′] Etymology: Gk, arche + typos, type 1 an original model or pattern from which a thing or group of things is made or evolves. 2 (in analytic psychology) an inherited primordial idea or mode of thought derived from the experiences of the human race and present in the subconscious of the individual in the form of drives, moods, and concepts. See also anima. archetypal, archetypic, archetypical, adj. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Meddaugh sets her tale in the kind of archetypically bucolic landscape where magic of the stouter sort happens, with dramatically effective contrasts between full-page pictures of the witch's looming woods and spaciously set spot illustrations of Margaret getting the better of her bossy older sister and brother. 261), and one is reminded of recent alarm concerning "monkey pox" as transmitted to archetypically cute prairie dogs by a single Gambian pouched rat Virus allusions run riot in Captain Africa, the American comic-book creation of Dwayne Ferguson (not to be confused with a Nigerian comic of the same title). And this in turn raises the interesting possibility that her master narrative of race and rape, her miasmatic plantation of the collective cultural mind, could now be said to function as a folktale, a "classic" whose endless iterations rely on subtle formal shifts to body forth the lessons of its archetypically static content. |
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