Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Claude Levi-Strauss Theory


Argued that meaning in narratives is based upon binary opposition (or conflict), he was less interested in the arrangement (syntagmatic) of the narrative (or order) and more in the deeper meaning (paradigmatic) of themes.

Binary opposition are things like;

  • Men v Women
  • Earth v Space
  • Science v Nature
  • Good v Evil

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