structuralism in literary theory and literary criticism
in literary theory structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure . for example , aliterary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of the west side story did not write anything really new , because their work has the same structure as shakespeare romeo and juliet . In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love aformula with a symbolic operator between them would be boy + girl despite the fact that they belong ti two groups hate each other boys group -girls group or opposing forces and conflict is resolved by their death.
structuralistic literary criticism argues that the novelty value of a literary text can lie only in new structure , rather than in the specific of character development and voice in which that strctuer iszay expressed .
