ENG 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vladimir Propp, Research Question, The Sequence
14 Dec 2017
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Literature de-familiarizes o: acts on the individual but estrangement is a good thing o. Ignores: referential function / how lit leads back to the world. Text: all elements work together to support each other. The search for underlying systems of thought in all forms of human activity o. Find the tiniest things and see how they all fit together. Object of investigation: the structure of language. Looks at the smallest units of language and then sees how they connect and build as a whole (think about physicists thinking about the atom to build a picture of the universe) Wants to erase the idea of the experiences attached to words and focus on how a concept gets connected to a word o. Language works as a system because it allies concepts with words. Look at language as a thing in itself. Saussure looked at pattern and function of language rather than its historical development o.
