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 lin...