Genre Theory
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Semiotics – Roland Barthes
· The idea that texts communicate their meanings through a process of signification · The idea that signs can function at the level of denotation, which involves the ‘literal’ or common-sense meaning of the sign, and at the level of connotation, which involves the meanings associated with or suggested by the sign · The idea that constructed meanings can come to seem self-evident, achieving the status of myth through a process of naturalisation. |
Narratology – Tzvetan Todorov
· The idea that all narratives share a basic structure that involves a movement from one state of equilibrium to another · The idea that these two states of equilibrium are separated by a period of imbalance or disequilibrium · The idea that the way in which narratives are resolved can have particular ideological significance. |
Genre theory – Steve Neale
· The idea that genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation, and change · The idea that genres change, develop, and vary, as they borrow from and overlap with one another · The idea that genres exist within specific economic, institutional and industrial contexts. |
Structuralism – Claude Lévi-Strauss
· The idea that texts can best be understood through an examination of their underlying structure · The idea that meaning is dependent upon (and produced through) pairs of oppositions · The idea that the way in which these binary oppositions are resolved can have particular ideological significance. |