Category: structuralism
The procedure of structuralism, applied to literature.
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What if every story is really the same story? A recent lesson began with a challenge to a common assumption in English teaching: that students learn Literature by studying individual texts. Instead, students were introduced to the idea of literary genealogy—the concept that all stories belong to the same enduring tradition and share a common…
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Words don’t have meanings, they get meanings. Structuralism is a difficult and abstract concept to understand, but there’s a meme that absolutely nails this.
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A clear introduction to structuralism in literary criticism, exploring how theorists such as Todorov, Propp, Greimas, Lévi‑Strauss, and Barthes reveal the deep structures that organise narrative. This post outlines the core procedures of structuralist analysis and shows how meaning emerges from patterns, relations, and underlying narrative systems rather than from surface themes or authorial intention.
