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Structuralism and literary criticism.

Structuralism is a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behaviour, culture, and experience, which focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual systems.
Structuralism is the term develop by Ferdinand De Saussure. Saussure’s mode of the synchronic study of language was an attempt to formulate the grammar of a language from a study of parole. 
Ha say that language is made of two things. 
       Language = langue + parole.
One can only understand what other is saying if the langue and parole is understandable to the person. 
    Ex: SRK hits "omrun".
Now for understanding this sentence you must have two things in your langue. First that what the first word SRK means  and and second omrun. 
To understand SRK you must connect with the Bollywood. Then only you can understand that SRK means sharuk khan. Who is actor. Second omrun is connect with the game baseball. Then only you can understand that omrun is connect with homerun.
Apart from this there are two more word which are also important for structuralism is Synchronic and Diachornic. 
   Synchronic : The word use on contemporary state.
   Diachornic :The word use in historical state.

If you want to understand one word then you must go through the process of sine- signifier-signified. 
Ex: Ball when some one speaks the Ball then The word Ball is sine and the image of ball come on your mind is signifier and at last with the image what you understand that the ball is to hit by bet and the ball that goes is basket. So, this way we understand words by three stage sine-signifier-signified. But one thing we come to Know that the signified is change with the person according to his nature and culture. 
This structuralism is explained by the Genett. And he also give the concept of narratology. In this narratology there and five stapes.
  1. Order
  2. Frequency
  3. Duration
  4. Voice
  5. Mood
Here  I try to explain all he five steps with the example of movie or novel.
 1. Order:  order talks about the event how they happen in plot. For ex: when we see the movie Drishyam We see that order of the Events are in form of C, A, B. That murderer is caught first and then We found murder is happen and at last cause of murder is known.
2. Frequenc :  The separation between event and it's narration allows several possibilities.
1. Event occur Once and be narrated Once.
2. Events occurs in times and be narrated once.
3.  Events occurs in once and be narrated  in times.
4. Event occurs in times and be narrated in times.
 3. Duration : The separation between an event and it's narration means there is discourse time and narrtive time. For ex:  when we watch movie Simba in the beginning we see that the hero is show as child and after a one seen there is leap of 20 years. At that point discourse time of movie is 20 years and narrtive time is of 1 min. In this manner we found that discourse time and narrtive time is changing.
4. Voice:  voice is concerned with who narrate and from where. Narration is of two type one is intra diegetic and extra diegetic. Intra diegetic means story is narrated from the inside the text. For ex: movie Drishyam is intera diegetic. Because one of the character him self narrated the story. And his view of looking story is become limited.
When we talk about Extra diegetic narration so we see that the person who look story is not the characters in it so his view of looking story will become vast.
In voice We also talk about who narrated story if person who narrated story than it become Hetero diegetic. For ex :  when we see the movie Drishyam We see that the the hero him self narrated story.
Apart from this when we see that some one who is not character of story then even narrated story then it will become Homo diegetic narrtive.
5. MoodGenette said narrative mood is dependent on the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the narrator, and like music, narrative mood has predominant patterns. It is related to voice. For ex:  when we look at the Mahabharata serial which is made by B. R. Chopra in this samay is narrator. So We found that the perspective of looking thinks will become vast.

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