The literary archetype for this film can be found in the Anabasis of Xenophon.
In their most general form, stock characters are related to literary archetypes, but they are often more narrowly defined.
Certain common methods of character depiction employed in dramatic performance rely on the pre-existence of literary archetypes.
Stock characters used in theatre or film are based on highly generic literary archetypes.
However hard we try to make him into a literary archetype he remains firmly rooted in life, in nonliterary experience.
Yet in all three groups, some saw these biblical figures as literary or historical archetypes.
The literary archetype is easy to identify here.
The collection explores the sinister side of classical myths, traditional Anglo-European folklore and literary archetypes.
Based on the Jungian theory of archetypes, consider a literary archetype as a character type or theme which recurs frequently in literature (Herz and Gallo, 64-66).
Baseman's aesthetic combines iconic pop art images, pre- and post-war vintage motifs, cross-cultural mythology and literary and psychological archetypes.