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Structuralist analyses of literature
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Structuralist analyses of literature
Narratology
Examines inner "workings" of literary text so to discover fundamental structural units that govern narrative operations.
units of narrative progress
units of character function
Tzvetan Todorov
Analogy: structural units of narrative = structural units of language
"Grammar" of narratory
character's attributes
states
qualities
conditions
character's actions = verbs
character = proper noun
propositions = sentences
Character + irreductible action = proposition
sequences = paragraphs
Attribution + action + attribution
categories of system
Negation
Modes
Comparison
Gérard Genette
Narrative
Narrative: actual words, discourse
Narration: the act of telling the story to an audience
Story: succession of events as they happend.
Tense
Order
Duration
Frequency
Mood
Distance
Perspective
Voice
A. J. Greimas
Humans perceive every entity as having two aspects
Binary oppotition
Plot formula
Characters (surface Phenomena)
Actants (character functions)
Forwarding the plot
Subject - object
Helper - opponent
Sender - receiver
Structure of narrative sequence
The fundamental structure of narrative = the fundamental structure of language: S + V + O
Negation
Opposite
Literary interpretation
Jonathan Culler
Major components of literary interpretation
Convention of distance and impersonality
Naturalization
The rule of significance
The rule of metaphorical coherence
Thematic unity
binary opposition
displacement of binary opposition
resolution of binary opposition
The structure of literature is actually the structure of the system of interpretation.
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