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Structuralism originated from the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure and was an influential philosophical movement in mid-20th century France. It focused on underlying patterns or "structures" that exist independently of individual experiences. Claude Lévi-Strauss applied structuralism to anthropology and demonstrated how kinship systems are variations on basic structures. Structuralism was then applied to literary theory by arguing that texts have an underlying grammatical structure that can be a

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Naveed Akhter

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