Monday, 9 April 2018

Structuralism and literary criticism

STRUCTURAlISM AND LITERARY CRITICISM : THINKING ACTIVITY

           
   
     What's is structuralism ?
     
           Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in France in the 1960s and it is first seen in the authorpologist Claude lavistrass and the literary critic Roland Barthes .

          Structuralism is a from of criticism which sought to understand a work of art in context of the structure which have genre, culture and language .

            We find basic common structure in every work. And literary work has also common structure like, birth, marriage, death .Here we find marriage is a climex .To understand structuralism we must understand the three
  *  sing
  * signifies
  * signified

      1 Sing =  Sound, word
      2 Signifies = Through sing meaning comes and image pop up in mind
      3 Signified = Something already there

     There are three fundamental assumption are :
   
      1) Arbitrary
      2) Relational
      3) Conventional

       System of recurrent patterns, of motifs. This out lien of Genett's Narratology is derived from :' Narrative Discourse ' An essay in method : Five main concept used

    Narrative text
   (1)  Discourse
   (2) Story

   Story
   (1)  Event
   (2)  Existence

   Existence
   (1) Character
   (2) Setting

    Example  :- Movie
.     
    1 OMG. 
    2 PK.
   
     In the this constructed to narrate story about religion thoughts and satire of society.

         Example - Movie -Seeta aur Geeta
                   
       
     In the movie story and lead roll is dual (duplicate ) Characters.

    In the movie lead roll played by Hema malini, they are twins girls, so we can see Seeta is a very innocent and shay girl and Geeta is a Rambunctious and sometimes .She raises for herself. She is smart girl.

        Different ideology of two sisters in the film seeta aur geeta

   Seeta                                        Geeta
- Passive and unclever  -  Cunning and
- Transitional.                         Shrewd
-  Frightened girl.           -  Modern
- Docile.                            -  Street smart girl
                                          -  Determined




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