Structuralism

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🔳 Structuralism :-

                     Structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. For example, a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of West Side  Story did not write anything " really " new, because their work has the same structure as  Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the both texts a girl and boy  fall in love with despite the fact that they belongs to two groups that hate each others (" Boy's group - girl's group" or " opposing forces")  and conflict is  revolved by their death .

🔳 Gerard Genette :-

                  Gerard Genette  ( 1930 - 2018 ) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and search figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss. From whom he adopted the concept of bricolage .   Genette writes at the outset  in his essay 'Structuralism and Literary Criticism'. Genette believes  that structural criticism is untainted by any of the transcended reduction of psychoanalysis for Marxist explanation. And he writes " It exerts , in its own way , a sort of internal reduction traversing the substance of the work in order to reach its bone structure : certainly not a superficial examination, but a sort of radioscopic penetration  and all the more external in that it is more penetrating .

                       Genette in Narrative Discourse : An essay in method  , he used five main concepts . And this five main concepts are ,
▪️ Order
▪️ Frequency
▪️ Duration
▪️ Voice
▪️ Mood

♣️ Order :- 

           Say a story is a follows : murder occurs ( event A ); then the circumstances of the murderer are revealed to  a detective (event B) finally murder is a cought (event c ).

🔳 TV serial and film :-

                        T.V.  serial CID and other serials like Crime Patrol, Savdhan India, Arjun helps us to understand NARRATOLOGY . We find that structure of all the serial is same . For example murder found by detective . This structure is same in every episode but they make changes presenting it .

♣️ Frequency :-

          The separation between an event and its narration allows several possibilities .

• An event can occur once and be narrated once.
• an event can occur n time and be generated once ( iterative ).
• An event can occur once and be narrated n time  ( repetitive) .
• an event can occur n time and be narrated n time (multiple ) .

♣️ Duration :-

                 The separation between an event and its narration means that there is  discourse time and narrative time .

♣️ Voice :-

             Voice is concerned with who narrates, and from where. This is this can be split for ways :

• Intra - diegetic : inside the text
• Extra - diegetic : outside the text
• Hero - diegetic : the narrator is not a character in the story .
• Homo -diegetic : the narrator is a character in the story .

                           In the PK  movie Anushka Sharma played the role of heroine and narrator , who narrated story different perspective .  PK is satirical comedy is based on challenging the superstition labelled as religious practices in Indian society . It became all the  more interesting to see the depiction of religion in this film using strong narratives along with visual representation  to deal with the issue of faith . 

♣️ Mood :-

                   Gennete said  narrative mood is dependent on the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the narrator, and like music, narrative mood has predominant petterns. It is related to voice .


🔳 Reference :-

https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2015/03/structuralism-and-literary-criticism.html?m=1

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