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Structuralism and Post Structuralism

Bryce King

Structuralism

Definition

"Structuralism challenged the belief that a work of literature reflected a given reality; instead, a text was constituted of linguistic conventions and situated among other texts"

Structuralism

Archetypes, tropes, parallels, symbolism, motifs in a given genre or period

A work vs. a text, must understand the structures in order to demystify the text

History

History

This could explain why Ursula K. Le Guinn centers a lot of her work around language.

Ferdinand De Saussure

Roland Barthes

Sign and Signified, language theory, sociology, anthropology

Marxist approach, "Myths" come from language-object connotations. ig. Wine

France pre-1920's

1950-1960's

1920-1940's

1950's into 1980's and beyond

Claude Levi-Strauss

Existentialism

Culture and religion, anthropology, binaries, bricolage

John Paul Sartre, the power of an individual

A Structure

What is a structure?

Examples

Princess, victimized

Aristotle's structure

Encounters an antagonist

Marries a prince

Wholeness, transformation, Self-regulation

Snow white, Sleeping beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel

Post structuralism

Emphasis on the reader's interpretation and interpretation in general, if structures are fixed then the critic is coming to conclusions also based on structures

Post Structuralism

"It resists or questions the methods of building knowledge that is language, religion, and science using traditional literary notions"

A critique of structures, notices when structures are being played with

History

History

Roland Barthes

Michael Foucault

Knowledge is power

Out of the ashes post-structuralism is born

1960's

Jacques Derrida

Structuralism reaches a head

Must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something" -The hypocracy of Structuralism

Examples

Examples

Jacob said in our first class, "How can there be a U-catastrophe if the Elves are gone, magic is gone and Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf are gone?" (Yes, I did acredit Jacob in my works cited.)

The Anti-Hero, bricolage

Examples: Elsa, Merrida, Moana

Word play, more than one meaning,

Deconstruction

Binaries

Deconstructionism

Pushing boundaries

Dismantling structures "What is this piece doing?"

Structuralism

Post-Structuralism

History & Examples

Deconstructionism

Seeing binaries, comparing it to injustices, seeing the unjustified binaries dismantled.

Gender theory

Queer theory

History

Jacques Derrida

From 1930's-early 2000's

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

She also identifies with Post-colonial theory

Works Cited

Citations

Jacob Damosh

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/poststructuralism

https://literariness.org/2016/03/20/structuralism/

https://www.aresearchguide.com/deconstructionism-and-postmodernism.html

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0008.xml

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/structuralism#:~:text=In%20literary%20theory%2C%20structuralism%20challenged,and%20situated%20among%20other%20texts.

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