Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Archetypes, Motifs, & Plot in Drama
A learning module that teaches students about archetypes, motifs, and plot in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Character Archetypes, Archetypal Plot Patterns, Other Archetypal Patterns, Archetypal Motifs, and Your Turn.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Archetype
This is a glossary entry for the term "Archetype" including definitions, examples, the background of the term coined by Carl Jung, and links to more information.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Archetypes: Themes and Situations [Pdf]
This 24-page PDF presentation focuses on Archetypes including themes and situations. It includes the discussion of themes such as supernatural world, human relationships, forces of nature, and many more.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Archetypal Criticism
This site from Washington State University a professor explains archetypal criticism. Includes references.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: The Universal Flow of Ideas
Although each piece of literature is unique, there are universal ideas that each story, myth, or poem share in common. Examine the universal ideas of theme, symbolism, and archetypes in this self-guided unit. Also, acquaint yourself with...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:ap Literature & Composition: Life, Death, and in Between
This unit focues on life and death, text-to-text connections, archetypes, symbols, and allusions, and writing in a non-native language. It features "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Comparative and Contemporary Mythology
This is a unit on comparative and contemporary mythology which discusses how the myths from various cultures have similar themes, linguistics, structure, and/or psychological forces. It also discusses the influences of mythology on...
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Critical Theory: Interpretive Strategies
Defines various critical approaches in brief. Click the Critical Theory link at the bottom of the page for more detail.
Other
Archetypes in Xena: Warrior Princess
Very interesting and unusual article on archetypes found in Xena, the TV show. Provides basic introduction to this kind of criticism in a different light.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Archetype
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides a brief description of archetype.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Libraries Exhibitions: Comics in the Curriculum
Comics and graphic novels have always been a popular trend among young people. Discover important literary themes and archetypes often used in this format.
Other
Univ. Of Mississippi: Critical Approaches to Literature
Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Dandy in the Picture of Dorian Gray
Victorian Web provides a site that covers the the study of archetypes in Oscar Wilde's fiction. Gives good examples of this kind of criticism. Very accessible to students, with a short list of references at the end.