Structuralism
An intellectual movement that evaluates literary meaning
from linguistics as derived from a larger cultural system of language. Signs, referents and meaning are established
not independently from their system of language, but relative to it. Meaning is derived from comparing and
contrasting meaning with other notions.
Meaning is derived not only from what the object is, but what the object
or concept is not. Structuralism, which includes
the field of Semiotics tends to focus more on how meaning is formed rather than
an expression of the author. It views
text as codified elements of a system of language that is, in effect, a syntax
of a culture.
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