THINKING ACTIVITY ON STRUCTURALISM
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This blog is the part of thinking activity on structuralism given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. here our task is that ,Being structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or Film? You can elect any image or TV serials or Film or literary text or advertisement. apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog.
Before direct going on this let's briefly discuss about Gerard Genette.
Gerard Genette born on 1930 was French literary theorist ,assosiated in particular with the structuralist movement he was best known in English through the section, " Narrative discourse:an essay on method".
In literary theory, structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure.For example,a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of west side story did not write anythign "really" new,because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
(a) the conventions of a particular literary genre,or
(b) a network of intertextual connections,or
(c) a projected model of an underlying universal narrative structure,or
(d) a notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs.
2. They interpret literature in terms of a range underlying parallels with the structures of language,as described by modern linguistics. For instance,the notion of the 'mytheme', posited by Levi-Strauss,denoting the minimal units of narrative 'sense',is formed on the analogy of the morpheme is the 'ed' added to a verb to denote the past tense.
3.They apply the concept of systematic patterning and structuring to the whole field of Western culture,and across cultures, treating as 'systems of signs' anything from Ancient Greek myths to brands of soap powder
What do structuralist critics do?
1. They means (mainly) prose narratives,relating the text to some larger containing structure,such as:(a) the conventions of a particular literary genre,or
(b) a network of intertextual connections,or
(c) a projected model of an underlying universal narrative structure,or
(d) a notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs.
2. They interpret literature in terms of a range underlying parallels with the structures of language,as described by modern linguistics. For instance,the notion of the 'mytheme', posited by Levi-Strauss,denoting the minimal units of narrative 'sense',is formed on the analogy of the morpheme is the 'ed' added to a verb to denote the past tense.
3.They apply the concept of systematic patterning and structuring to the whole field of Western culture,and across cultures, treating as 'systems of signs' anything from Ancient Greek myths to brands of soap powder
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