Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist. He is considered a founder of structuralism, a method of analyzing phenomena such as language, culture, and texts through identifying patterns and relationships between parts of the whole. Structuralism looks at how elements relate within a system of binary oppositions.
1. Swiss
linguist, Ferdinand de
Saussure
Emma Regula
2. A method of analyzing phenomena, as in
anthropology, linguistics, psychology, or
literature, chiefly characterized by contrasting the
elemental structures of the phenomena in a system
of binary opposition.
Relates to literary texts to a larger structure ( i.e.
genre)
3. Structuralism Formalism
Relates to literary texts a school of literary
to a larger structure ( criticism and literary
i.e. genre) theory having mainly to
do with structural
purposes of a particular
text.
Both theories place the study of literature on a
scientific basis through objective analysis of the
motifs, devices, techniques, and other “functions”
that comprise the literary work.
4. Structuralism Marxism
Relates to literary texts Marxism is the concept of
to a larger structure ( class struggle and
i.e. genre) distinctions that plays a
central role in
understanding literature.
Opposes all forms of
reformism and
“gradualism” or
“evolutionary socialism”
5. The Battle of Jericho is about teenagers making
decisions that can reflect on their life.
Structuralism is shown through how teenagers
talked because structuralism refers to grammar.
"Between now and the last week of this
month, anything that a pledge master asks you to
do-anything, you are required to do." on pg 158
6. Structuralism is all about how the literary text or
sentence is structured. Does it have correct
grammar? Does it make sense?
I would teach structuralism because every
book, sentence, etc. has to have some type of
structure.
How would our society be without people knowing
the proper structure of literature?
Without structuralism, I think we would have the
“texting” language.
Example: BRB or c ya l8er
7. Blunden, Andy. “Marxism.” Value of Knowledge
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