Literary Approches - Structuralism Flashcards

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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

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Structuralism

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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

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Ferdinand de saussure

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Literary text have systems that underlie them

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Language structure

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It cannot be understood in isolation

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Language relational

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It constitutes 9r creates the world we live in

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Language constitutive

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