Posts

Showing posts from January, 2018

Structuralism and Literay Criticism -Gerard Genette

Image
¤   Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog.                                                      In literary theory, Structuralism is an approach to analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure .There are many Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard  Genette , Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss  etc. Structuralist critics found basic common structure in every work. As all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV s...

Northrop Frye- Thinking Activity

Image
What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?                                                                                                             The general dictionary meaning of the Archetypal criticism is an image or symbol or original modal that is used repeatedly by many arts and Literature to spread some kind of idea like in Durgapuja and Ganesh chaturthi all the rituals are same by which the idea of death that everybody has to face. It identifying the situation, patterns of action,character types. According to Carl Jung "collective unconscious" that is general resource we have. Archetypal critics observes the Images,symbols,place/location, music that how much related to the situ...