Definition of "structuralism" [structuralism]

• A method of analyzing phenomena, as in anthropology, linguistics, psychology, or literature, chiefly characterized by contrasting the elemental structures of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition. (noun)
• A school that advocates and employs such a method. (noun)

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• "Throw in structuralism and things start to get really weird where the final divorce papers from the analysis of texts arrive."
• "By closely reading the famous poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor, this essay delineates some of the poetic forms involved in the inscription of environmental awareness, such as minimalism, and the foregrounding of what in structuralism is called the "contact" or medium of communication."
• "It seems then that, once adopted, it is not be called structuralism at all!"