@article{Kozubenko_2020, title={Structuralism as a field of literary studies}, url={https://tdp-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/183}, abstractNote={<p>The article deals with the problem of structuralism as a field of literary studies. Attention is drawn to the fact that the essence of structuralism in the late 50’s was expressed by its main theorist Claude Levi- Strauss. He formulated the following basic principles of the structuralist research method.</p> <p>These principles defined the categories of structuralist analysis: element, system, relationship, structure, level, hierarchy, position, opposition, model. The sequence of operations of structuralist analysis depended on the following stages: «reading» of the text, its microanalysis, interpretation, decryption, and final modeling. Two methods of analysis were established: «synchronous», with the setting for immanence, and «diachronic», with a focus on historicity. Among the subjects of structuralist analysis, the common ones, usually represented in the so-called binary oppositions, were practically defined: sign – meaning, speech – language, text – context, culture – nature.</p> <p>Such a juxtaposition of concepts meant the opposite of the artificial natural. The sequence of these binary categories reflects their relationship, in<br>which each subsequent pair includes the previous one.</p> <p>American linguist R. Jacobson, insisting in a number of works on the transformation of poetics into a section of linguistics, in his studies on «poetry<br>of grammar and poetry of grammar» on the material of various European and some other languages explains the extent to which the analysis of poetic<br>structures can shed light on the functioning of grammatical form and thereby outline the emergence of a future special scientific discipline that would be of paramount importance for academic literary studies, linguistics, and school teaching.</p> <p>Russian literary critic Y. Lotman argues that the view of the work of art as a model of reality with characteristic properties that allow to determine the<br>specifics of art. The model in art, because of the great diffusion of distinguishing features, has greater possibilities for unpredictable discoveries than the scientific model. A work of art, in Lotman’s view, is at the same time a model of two objects – the reality and personality of the author, who forms the model based on the structure of his consciousness, though the model imposes on it its structure.</p> <p>The most fruitful in structuralism were attempts at a detailed interpretation of intertextual relations, binaries of different structural levels of literary texts, plot and composition.</p&gt;}, number={32}, journal={Theoretical and didactic philology}, author={Kozubenko, Leonid}, year={2020}, month={Apr.}, pages={42-48} }