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Displacement of Myth:

"In short, we can get a whole liberal education simply by picking up one conventional poem and following its archetypes as they stretch out into the rest of literature." Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye represents the ecstatic critic who looks outside himself when regarding literature as a hulicinagen. Basically that means that he sees the words and the work for what they are and not what the author intended them to be. (Intentional Fallacy) The meaning of a work is not detachable from the work of literature. As an ecstatic critic, the work becomes more than just something to analyse and criticize, it becomes something to enjoy that brings excitement to discovering what myth or fairytale or cliche is hidden within the pages of a novel or the lines of a poem. One of the best examples of displaced myth can be found in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce wherein nearly every fairytale or nursery rhyme can be found.