ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An example of structuralism is describing an apple. An apple is crisp, sweet, juicy, round, and hard. Another example of structuralism is describing your experience at the ocean by saying it is windy, salty, and cold, but rejuvenating.

Detailed explanation-2: -Structuralist critics analyzed material by examining underlying structures, such as characterization or plot, and attempted to show how these patterns were universal and could thus be used to develop general conclusions about both individual works and the systems from which they emerged.

Detailed explanation-3: -In literary theory, structuralist criticism relates literary texts to a larger structure, which may be a particular genre, a range of intertextual connections, a model of a universal narrative structure, or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs.

Detailed explanation-4: -The structuralist procedure of reading a text seeks out patterns which it assumes will fit into a system of interdependent parts.