Structuralism

# Structuralism traces the conventions of Literacy genre, inter-textual connection and universal narrative structure.

# Five codes of Roland Barthes are identified in his book S/Z.

# Structuralism claims that "things can't be understood in isolation, they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of.

# In accordance with Structuralism, the part/ utterance/ parole/ can be equated to the whole structure/system /language.

# Claude Levi- Struss , the French anthropologist is regarded as the pioneer of Structuralism, in Oedipus Rex ,he gave a structural reading.

#Ferdinand de Saussure argued that language is structured out of differences.

# Structuralism was influenced by Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes.

# Claude Levi-Struss argued that the same underlying rules and structures govern family relationships in different cultures all over the world.

# Roland Barthes says that the literary critic's relationship to literary discourse is the same as the linguistics relationship to language.

# Saussure used the linguistic structure in forming the ideology of Structuralism.

# Claude Levi-Struss applied Structuralism to the interpretation of myth.

# Langue means system of language and people denotes utterance.

# Dyadic pairs in Structuralism signifies 'The Binary Oppositions'

# Structuralist process can be understood as moving from the particular to the general.

# Roland Barthes has applied the structuralist method to the modern Cultur.

# Roland Barthes' book 'Mythologies' published in 1957 explores the modern France from the view of a Cultural anthropologist.

# The term 'Mytheme' was suggested by Levi Strauss to trace the analogy of morpheme.

# Ferdinand de Saussure defines Structuralism as, 'a close scrutiny of the text, aiming at discovering the meaning as well as reconstituting the rules governing the meaning.