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Structuralism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a way of analysing cultural artifacts as a product of codes, or underlying systems of rules and distinctions.

Structuralism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an activity of taking the real, decomposing it, and then recomposing it to make something appear which was previously unintelligible. What appears is nothing but a kind of intelligible which is not the object, but man himself, his history, his situation, his freedom, and the very resistance which nature offers to his mind.

Structuralism (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not discover but rather reconstructs an object to make it intelligible.

Structuralism's (n.) logical ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠continuation is to cease to posture as a science, to rejoin literature, no longer as an 'object' of analysis but as the activity of writing.

Structuralism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠differentiated from semiology in that semiology is often reserved for his work on sign systems, whereas structuralism is more frequently employed in his analysis of literary narratives.