Questions on Structuralism

1. What is the main idea behind structuralism. Who came up with this idea?

2. Give two differences between the humanist model and the structuralist model.

3. What did Lacan try to do?

4. What is the 'social construction of reality'?

5. How does structuralism open up 'trashy' stories like Harlequin Romance to intellectual study? Use the word genre in your answer.

6. What is reading 'against the grain'?

7. What did Levi-Strauss do with structuralism?

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