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Literary theory 2: Structuralism, Deconstruction, and more, hooray!

The Bookening

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The Locus of Meaning Is Still With the Text

The locus of meaning is still with the text, right? Still with the signifier and the signified. It's why people will argue that Marx was a proto-structuralist because he's seeing these underlying structures of power across society. Northrop Fry is a guy that people should know his name. He would approach it and kind of combine Jungian theories with structuralism. Because yes, Lewis would kind of fall into a structuralist approach as well.

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