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For a Structuralist critic, a Shakespearean sonnet
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is a self-contained piece of art possessing organic unity. |
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is a reflection of Elizabethan class ideology |
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is composed of a series of cultural signs and literary conventions that the modern
reader must naturalize |
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is one illustration of the primary unit idea of Renaissance culture: the Great Chain
of Being. |
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| 2. |
Like other sonneteers of his day, Shakespeare
often alludes to the imagery of the Italian poet Petrarch, sometimes seriously and
sometimes ironically. The need for the reader to be aware of this use of Petrarchan
imagery illustrates the Structuralist notion of __________. |
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how the conventions of a genre comprise a literary langue |
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how a literary text is built around binary oppositions |
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how important it is to recognize the signified |
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how recognizing allusions is essential to hermeneutics |
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An essay that explores the many ways in which the
text of Conrad's Heart of Darkness manifests a contrast of light and dark may be
based upon the Structuralist concept of __________. |
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discourse |
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parole |
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privileged signs |
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binary opposition |
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| 4. |
Jane has no difficulty reading her first sonnet by
Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser because she recognizes many similarities in imagery,
theme, and technique with the many Shakespearean sonnets she has read. For a
Structuralist, her experience illustrates __________. |
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the importance of a cultural dialectic in experiencing vraisemblance |
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that literary competence comes from familiarity with a sign-system |
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the importance of dramatic context |
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the symbolic code |
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In "Nurse's Song" from William Blake's Songs
of Innocence the color green is a symbol of vitality and mental health, but in
"Nurse's Song from his Songs of Experience is a symbol of decay and mental
depression. This difference illustrates the Structuralist assumption __________. |
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of the arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified |
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without a familiarity with the parole of a text its meaning cannot be
determined |
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that dramatic context is a key to meaning |
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the semic code is difficult to learn |
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The Structuralist critic is primarily focused on
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interpreting the intended meaning of a text by delineating by binary oppositions in
the language used |
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studying how the meaning experienced by the reader is made possible by the
sign-system(s) of a literary text |
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explaining how the reader naturalizes the ideology of the text |
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delineating the autotelic sign-system of a literary text |
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According to Ferdinand de Saussure, a sign is
composed of __________. |
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a binary opposition |
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vraisemblance |
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a langue |
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a "signifier" and a "signified" |
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For a Structuralist, the term parole
denotes __________. |
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the semiotic grammar or conventions upon which the unique set of signs (langue)
of a specific text is based |
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the meaning derived from the reader's naturalization of the text. |
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the unique set of signs in a specific text based upon the semiotic grammar or
conventions of a langue |
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a set of conventions contributing to the discourse of meaning within a text |
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For a Structuralist, vraisemblance
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results from the reader's naturalization of the text's signs by applying to them a set
of conventions |
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refers the disorientation experienced when the reader lacks literary competence |
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class dialectic discovered in a binary opposition of signs |
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comes from tracing textual clues or allusions to important historical or sociological
contexts |
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The Structuralist believes that the literary work
should be viewed as discourse because __________. |
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the reader is the primary determinant of meaning |
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it's meaning is experienced through a linguistic collaboration by the author, culture,
and reader. |
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it reflects the economic class struggle evident throughout history |
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it is purposefully didactic, seeking to promote specific moral or cultural values. |
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