ساختیاتی تنقید کے نظری پہلو THEORATICAL ASPECTS OF STRUCTURAL CRITICISM Section Urdu Literature

Abstract

Structuralism is a prominent critical theory and it focuses on how human behaviour is determined by cultural, social and psychological structures. Structuralism is a philosophy and method that developed from insights in the field of linguistics in the mid-20th Century to study the underlying patterns of social life. In Urdu criticism the structuralist mode of inquiry sought not simply to identify structures or relationships per se, but rather to look behind or beneath the visible and conscious designs (beliefs, ideas, behaviors) of active human subjects (surface manifestations. It also discusses a literary text as a social product, role of author and reader.