Structuralism and Literary Criticism: Gerard Genette.





## Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method ...


# Structuralism :-

It is a approach to analysing the narrative Material by examining the underlying invariant structure. This is in fact exactly what structuralism is about structuralist theorist are interested in identifying and analysing the structure that underlie all the cultural phenomenon.

      Structuralist got the notion that everything could be analysed in the terms of deep structure from linguistic Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard Genette. They found the basic structure in every work. It is like human structure of body that all human being have same inside structure of body. So this can also apply into the literature that it has also their basic common structure which can found every literary forms.

1) Languge , Langue , Parole

2) Sign , Signifier , Signified

3) Dachronic vs Synchronic

As we know all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV serials or advertisement etc.

                     As a structuralist critic I found structures of Revenge,Love and Quest..

            Here is the example of some Bollywood movies and their themes of Revenge...

1.No One Killed Jessica (2011)

The movie directed by Raj Kumar Gupta and the actors are Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan, Myra Karn, Neil Bhoopalam

It is a story of a journalist, who is more of an activist teams up with the sister of a murdered model, as she gets interested in the case and wants to bring justice to her case.



2. Mardaani (2014)

The movie directed by Pradeep Sarkar and the Stars are Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin,Priyanka Sharma, Mona Ambegaonkar....

A story of Shivani Shivaji Roy, Crime Branch, who sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia.


● Significance of ' FIRE ' and ' ICE ' in the both poems :

1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
and
2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser....

First of all when we read the title of both poems it seems both are same..but both have different meaning..Both poems powerful and the main and same thing is "Fire"and "Ice".. Fire is symbol of anger and passion.. Ice Is a symbol of calmness..

Spenser's Poem Ice and Fire described his beloved as a ice and he himself as a fire..

we can say in both poem thier is different meaning....


Thank You..

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