Explain the concept of structure and discuss the idea of a stable centre
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In literary criticism ‘structure’ carries its primary meaning: a systematic arrangement of parts set in functional harmony to an infinite operationality. The term derived from Saussurean linguistics, though Saussure never used the word ‘structure’, gives the idea of structure being a closed system with its elements arbitrarily chosen but systematically set in positive differences (a.k.a binaries).
A text is seen as a site of both linguistic and literary structures. A structuralist reading, in fact, primarily invests itself in the process of ‘artha-nirdharana’ or meaning-making: how does a text come to mean something? A text is, therefore, closely examined for its arrangement of parts, i. e. elements of plot, characters, leitmotifs, narrative voice/s, narrative techniques, generic conventions, etc and how the binaries within these parts set off. And thereby what composite model of meaning (be it thematic, hermenuetic, psychoanalytic, stylistic, Marxist and so on) of a text can be forwarded.
For an interpretive meaning-making reading then, assumed centre(s) could be in terms of author's intention/suggestion, history, metaphysical beliefs (e.g. Semitic idea of God, cosmogony, ethics, teleology etc), or even Freudian unconscious. That is, anything that promises surity of meaning can be dubbed as centre.
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In literary analysis ‘structure’ displays its initial meaning: a methodical organization of characters set in utilitarian balance to an absolute operationality. The expression originated from Saussurean linguistics, where the term ‘structure’, presents the opinion of the structure being a closed arrangement with its components arbitrarily chosen but orderly set in positive contrast.
In the customs of structuralism and post-structuralism, the theory of structure is used in a manner considerably diverging from that point of Anglo-Saxon social science and conception. The simplest way to designate this is by writing to Saussure's classic analysis of the fundamental characteristics of language. Structural characteristics of communication do not survive as patterns established in time and space, like models of social relationships; they consist of associations of inadequacies and presences rooted in the instantiation of expression, in communication or in texts.'