Structuralist Poetics : Structuralism, - Linguist...

Langue is the abstract system of rules (Grammar), while parole is the actual speaking we do.

If linguistics studies the system of language ( langue ), then a "Poetics" should study the system of literature. 2. "Literary Competence": How You Learned to Read Structuralist poetics : structuralism, linguist...

Structuralism takes its cues from , the "father of modern linguistics". He proposed that language is a system of signs where nothing has meaning on its own—only in relation to other things. Langue is the abstract system of rules (Grammar),

There is no "natural" reason why the word "rose" means that flower; it’s just a social agreement. "Literary Competence": How You Learned to Read Structuralism

In his landmark 1975 book, , Jonathan Culler argues that reading literature is a lot like speaking a language. You don't just naturally "know" how to interpret a poem; you have mastered a hidden system of rules that makes that interpretation possible. 1. The Blueprint: Linguistics as the Model

Why do you know that a "dark and stormy night" in a novel suggests something bad is coming, but the same sentence in a weather report is just a fact?

The word "Rose" (the sound/ink) is the signifier . The concept of a flower is the signified .