This document discusses Gerard Genette's structuralism and its application to literary criticism. It introduces key concepts of structuralist criticism like langue and parole, and examines how structuralism views literature as a sign system that can be analyzed using linguistic models. It outlines some of the major structuralist critics like Roland Barthes, Gerard Genette, and Tzvetan Todorov and how structuralism opposes expressive and mimetic criticism by examining the systematic dimensions of a text rather than its actual meaning. The document also discusses concepts from narratology like story versus narrative, narrating versus narration, and techniques like analepsis, prolepsis, diegesis, and mimesis.

1.  Name:-Bhumi Vajani
 M.A.-1 Sem:-2
 Roll No:-04
 Paper:- 7
 The Literary Theory
&Criticism
 Topic:-Gerard Genette’
Structuralism & Literary
Criticism
 Year:-2013
 Submitted To:-Dr.Dilip Barad
 Dept Of English
 M.K. Bhavnagar Univercity

2. “Structuralism is a way to
examines a literary text to arrive
at their meaning ,rather than
the actual meanings of the text
themselves.”

3. Parole
Langue
Language

4. Langue(language)
Synchronic(systematic Diachronic (historical
dimension) or temporal dimension

5. “Structuralism Criticism conceives
literature to be a second order signifying
system that uses the first-order structure
system of language as it’s medium, and is
it self to be analyzed primarily on the
model of linguistic theory .”

6. Roland
Barthes
Gerard Structuralist Tzvetan
Genette Critics Todorov
Julia
Kristeva

7. Mimetic
Criticism
Structuralism
Opposes
Expressive Criticism
Structuralism Reader
Author

8. Philosophy
Literature
Other
Science of
humanity

9. Narratology
Content
Discourse
Genette
Grammars analyzed Logics
Semiotics

10. Histoire
Recite
Story
Narrative
Narration
Narrating

11. Narrative Verbal Discourse
Tense Mood Voice

12. Analepsis Flashback
Prolepsis Flash-forward
Diegesis Felling
Mimesis Scene

13. 
Mode
 & Theoretical Who sees? (
Voice
 separation the localizer)

 Who tales ?
(the narrative
instance)