THE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF STRUCTURALISM AND POST-STRUCTURALISM AS CRITICAL CONCEPTS ACCORDING TO TERRY EAGLETON
THE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF STRUCTURALISM AND POST-STRUCTURALISM AS CRITICAL CONCEPTS ACCORDING TO TERRY EAGLETON According to Mary Klages in his work Literary Theory: A guide for the perplexed, Structuralism is a way of thinking that words to find the fundamental basic units or elements of which anything is made. Structuralism appears in a variety of fields, including anthropology, linguistics, mathematics, and literary and cultural criticism. Pramod k. Nayar also pointed out in his work Contemporary Literary Theory and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism that structuralism looks at the relationship between the various elements within the self-contained, well-organized structure of a text in order to understand the ways by which the text produces meaning. It focuses on the form of a text by looking at elements like voice, character, setting, and their combination. In the study of Structuralism, the world which we see, t
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