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What is the basic contention or archetypal criticism?
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September 13, 2007 8:29PM
The basic contention isthat literary expression is an unconscious product of the collective experience of the entire species. As such, literature is, therefore, integrally related with a man's cultural past.
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(The word contention means strife, strong debate, or
argument, or an allegation.)
The contention revolved around the use permit for the proposed
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The candidates were locked in contention over whether or not to
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