Thinking Activity On Structuralism And Literary Cricism








 









* Being a structuralist critic,how would you analyse literary text or t.v serial on film?you can select any image or t v serial or film or literary text or advertisement.apply structuralist method.
     
Ans:- Structuralist got the nation that everything could be analysed in the terms of deep structure from linguistic Ferdinand Saussure,geard generate.In any field the structure is same.In literary work also structure is various forms e .g. language,words etc.


A potential problem of structuralist interpretation is that it can be highly reductive, as scholar Catherine Belsey puts it: "the structuralist danger of collapsing all difference.

  An example of such a reading might be if a student concludes the authors of West  Side  story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group - Girl's Group" or "Opposing forces") and conflict is resolved by their death. Structuralist readings focus on how the structures of the single text resolve inherent narrative tensions. If a structuralist reading focuses on multiple texts, there must be some way in which those texts unify themselves into a coherent system. 

The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families ("Boy's Family + Girl's Family") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other ("Boy - Girl") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage; the justification is that the second story's structure is an 'inversion' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.



● Significance of ' FIRE ' and ' ICE ' in the both poems : 1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost and 2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser.

1.  Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

2. Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser 


Both of this poem are told same thing about fire and ice. we think fire is symbol of anger and ice is symbol of peace, Fire is symbol of anger and another is  .Both have strength burn.

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