Literary Approches - Structuralism Flashcards
This theory emerged from theories of language and linguistics where it looks at the underlying elements and structures in culture and literature that can be used as a channel to further interpret the surface meaning of the text or idea
Structuralism
Structuralism was marked and bloomed in the 1950s and 1960s, the salient of the was the Swiss linguists ________.
He highlight the historical development of language chose to consider it in a ‘temporal term’ as a system of differentiated signs which could have to mean within the systems of which they were part
Ferdinand de saussure
Literary text have systems that underlie them
Language structure
It cannot be understood in isolation
Language relational
It constitutes 9r creates the world we live in
Language constitutive