AN ATTEMPT AT A TYPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ICE MOTIF AS A SYMBOL OF DEATH

Prompted by Frye’s classification of literary works the present paper embarks on an investigation of the ice motif and its manifestations in a mythological and literary context. It is based on a restricted corpus, yet the survey made proves the recurrent meaning of ice to be a symbol of death and its various other connotations – inherently associated with the primal meaning revealing it in different aspects in the works to be analyzed.

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