3.4.1.1 Semiotics
Semiotics:
• Sign
• Signifier
• Signified
• Dominant signifier
• Icon
• Index
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• Code
• Symbol
• Anchorage
• Ideology
• Paradigm
• Syntagm.
Barthes’ ideas and theories on semiotics:
• Signification
• Denotation
• Connotation
• Myth.
3.4.1.2 Narratology
Narratology:
• Narrative Codes
• Narration
• Diegesis
• Quest narrative
• ‘Character types’
• Causality
• Plot
• Masterplot.
Todorov’s ideas and theories on narratology:
• Narrative structure
• Equilibrium
• Disruption
• New equilibrium.
3.4.1.3 Genre theory as summarised by Neale
• Conventions and rules
• Sub-genre
• Hybridity
• Genres of order and integration
• ‘Genre as cultural category’.
3.4.1.4 Structuralism
Lévi-Strauss’ ideas and theories on structuralism:
• Binary oppositions
• Mytheme
• Cultural codes
• Ideological reading
• Deconstruction.
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3.4.1.5 Postmodernism
Postmodernism:
• Pastiche
• Bricolage
• Intertextuality
• Implosion.
Baudrillard’s ideas and theories on postmodernism:
• Simulacra
• Simulation
• Hyperreality.