Structuralism and Literary Criticism: Gerard Genette

Structuralism and Literary Criticism: Gerard Genette

         

       My general view on Structuralism, that it is form of criticism which sought to understand a work of art in the context of structure which have genre, culture and language. It can be related it with text and make study of text. System of recurrent patterns or motifs. Studied the original structure. Gerard Genette was French literary Theorist. In his essay he discusses five aspects of Narratology, that are like Order, Frequency, Duration, Voice, and Mood. Frist is Order as story as follows, a murder occurs, Circumstances or we can say that situation of character, Murderer is revealed to a detective and Murderer is caught at the end of story. For example movie “36 China Town”, and TV serial “CID”. Duration means Separations between an event and its narration. For example, Raj Kumar Hirani’s movie “3 Idiots” in it Farhan who narrates the story. Voice is concerned with two questions, who narrates? And from Where? In itsIntra-diegetic, it means a narrator inside the text.For example movie Chocolate and Musafar. And Hetero-diegetic in the narrator is not a character in the story, for example. Mahabharata in Samay.

              So at last we may say that being a Structuralist critic an individual can analyze literary texts or T.V serials.