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Ghonwa Hammod Dr. Ahmad Taha Literary Criticism 27/3/2021
Ghonwa Hammod Dr. Ahmad Taha Literary Criticism 27/3/2021
Ghonwa Hammod Dr. Ahmad Taha Literary Criticism 27/3/2021
Ghonwa Hammod
Literary Criticism
27/3/2021
Roland Barthes) .
structure. Structuralist critics hold the idea that it is the structure of language that
decides the meaning of language. Structuralism derived its notion, that meaning
can be understood in terms of deep structure analysis, from the linguist Ferdinand
relation between the signifier and the signified becomes free, because the meaning
semiotician, points out that the subject of literary study is not literature, but
literariness; it is the thing that makes any work a literary work. Therefore,
asserts that the form or structure, such as sound, rhythm, meter and syntax are
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responsible for attracting readers' attention. This, again, strengthens the conflict
between sound-image and the concept, thus creates an effect Jakobson calls
denotation, describes the basic or literal meaning of a message, while the second
emerged in the 20th century, yet it dehumanizes literature and depicts it as a tool