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===Structuralism/Semiotics=== | ===Structuralism/Semiotics=== | ||
Structuralism and semiotics are used to show readers see how works can be understood and give conventions that will enable readers to make sense of them. Through this type of literary criticism, there are specific rules, which include exposition, flashbacks, foreshadowing, syntax and diction. These rules are to help the reader convey how the work is put together to make a deeper meaning<ref> mmaurno [http://www.scribd.com/doc/18167893/Types-of-Literary-Criticism Types of Literary Criticism] Accessed July 8, 2014</ref>. <br /> | Structuralism and semiotics are used to show readers see how works can be understood and give conventions that will enable readers to make sense of them. Through this type of literary criticism, there are specific rules, which include exposition, flashbacks, foreshadowing, syntax and diction. These rules are to help the reader convey how the work is put together to make a deeper meaning<ref> mmaurno [http://www.scribd.com/doc/18167893/Types-of-Literary-Criticism Types of Literary Criticism] Accessed July 8, 2014</ref>. <br /> | ||
Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. | Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. "Syntactic Structures", written by Noam Chomsky, "Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays" by Northrop Frye, and "The Elementary Structure of Kinship" by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] are good sources for better understanding on Structuralism<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>. <br /> | ||
===New Historicism/Cultural Studies=== | ===New Historicism/Cultural Studies=== | ||