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    CHAPTER THREE Language and Literature I: Formalism and Structuralism How wisely Nature did decree, With the same eyes to weep and see! That, having viewed the object vain, ‘We might be ready to complain Thus since the self-deluding sight In a false angle takes cach height These tears, which better measure all, Like wat'ry lines and plummets fall. Andrew Marvell, Eyes and Tears First of all, 1 didn’t say that there was no centre, that we could get along without the centre. I believe that the centre is a function, not a being—a reality, but a function. Jacques Derrida, in the discussion on ‘Sign Structure and Play...” Point of Entry No. 1: Vladimir Propp and Morphology of Folktales: We are going to call that knowledge directed towards others a transitive knowing, while the knowledge about oneself is reflective knowing... Now we almost have the distinction we want. We can apply all this to knowing—not about others but about oneself. ‘This is typically the definition of reflexive knowing, but reflexive knowing bearing upon Sete 208 jue do ako Wha hey te, sce 0 UTERATURE FORAUSDSTUCT ng ig abt Bring You tr, Tye ty ———__ ee ee ements of 4 ew grammar, 1 Soa) Degen Fim Sa _ et = Eo ts noble we cn nt |) (RS Geom sm ‘Aj Grimes ‘The LOvelifof the Hippngs odeen bl on Vins Pop's sons of fncons ee) Popo ec? Bt sence i fe) he’ einkaa blessing which ao tepresenatn, ily members Lec rind of ets. The table is large + op Hee ak stl rahe pics of ie orniton, incompede ale Aol a spe of akys—not ofthe kind of eee ent nent ney Me ued win our university eduction structs eral aes em gon popalat fils, a film thac cvebody net ela eae etl Gi peor pus win ee Sl. See amee | saiaee (me srg ee = ce, Dae Fin Soe his shee anne Bs _|— lis ins ne ae dion hd on Vas Pops definitions of Functions, cc) peer son in, companed by promi ee een RSet Cae sa tig id hetofinspector gives ell for be for the two helpettpitoners who Inspectofhera st atacked by he had sve hii in ashback (1) ee FE a? eonnciveall tse ar conecives Prsonetshelpers who save hii forthe final meeting of inspector ; leer fbmeh and esters 7 Fashback (2) Connective: Te care) ee afl old servant rerinics ioe Retin en fa eile old em mln rod-ler of revad big fred ela 7 idowed davgl For dei arest if Fashback (3); () voy ov it a] Thakur’ skal ine* ponder how he vito ofthe vin 2 Spe Gh ees about thes les) 7 punishment fae a e |heroes surrender i lin sentenced for 207 ° 1 prone pred 0 ape (ong © > T4 bo ot hele) "+ Gli) pursuit of hero 7 7 [another attempt to fool the jailer — Gx lian runs escapes fer Pa : a es es fom = aly ape om al LI thy get ugh wien ing cl SP £ ey half the reward from the woodsclee fp UTAATURE FORMALISM 9:0 TaLCTURLA ss a poe fe Sina: iy Nadim Propp's defi ffi tgp ion co, Ped on Vainio dain tac ay ser w une ee ers eed dir iy {ps bcpeficroe rele eg, [ut A (murder an sist cour ace ak 2 imam. worl about his sons ae : rine me Pee eer SS ee is ed ey wT? ele g thas hou y ee ee i aes Ranged a pl | pao pot sins ars |_| id RS 009 ay M per. lnm, bce he Lb a Yi tsar its, omen 2 2 |thakur tests the helpers reign POR 5 he bya] mm rotn fhe ar Pon rin a wl) 2 helpers attempt to rob the thas, ele hetoeshelprs pretend o be dead he gers hn nny | ethene Se td eg 7B oop dog riage 36 | 8 larg or ® —|chefe in vatious forms 3s villain kidnaps hero'shelper’s lover i deci oor grin aw | w Gear of wherabous of an oben Pw] Yay ove vin peor n prod “hana pes dtan te daar fen Sian fechas pn eee | cr | el tet on ey pono | lea if egw | | PY OR | legge inten) YP a8 Te] a [tenets rex cmbac bere ihn » en an open ld een ange / a dine helps save heroes #. Ed Hh lemeeder lat z Rs_}heroine help zs the other helper attacks villain [2 [a elie igi = ec hfe ale |S a as rma a 8] & [a Pier tan crops rece informa a a Thakur kills che villsin—anosher [|p atc ale of guns to the Ld ecansformation, lke the Aashback >| 1 Yrictory over the villain lao alder |heroes/helpers bomb the place {The above table! is an analysis of Sholay, based on ideas Gar— destroy its ‘nitions fiom Vladisie, Props influential book, Morphol ofthe i Lal? r hos branded, cvs won, "ale. in which he proposed a method of analysis of flk (lone the here Soe, a2 flier analyses.? Ag j, aces fom etl aAI8612 Asi apt ile ie dost NOt contin a dete ine ‘chological atributes of the's i gh sures ofthe ea st te he Peet aes of a ae yc ig Ne doen reco HE aay ofthe aon characters inet serene th lant the lini ey i i nd ae? Kal amass thee hacen Wa es ater of notation dey Sa a ind of showhand for deat ro happen’ in te fil 8 te coe tie OO Peps his method of analy reps He tls, subsequently came vo be prose ion of other types at wel The vionary in a certain Sense, ist ap ee haces ony by having cena ee ingen oe, Whoever ply ara in ace indi, singly ofthe cae? ben ene. Vadim Propp had denied abou ia gh aque ter tes modi re ef, What anton? Anybody who a ce cn iieen lke wl se tha there isa pattem wi eer pie, a patern that goes beyond, or is hidden behind de oes Camider the ‘kelnaping’ it can be done by ake ene er slhuman villin ora demon, and wha is kdegpd Jae wubloit could be a daughter of the house, oF a press AA the ing or some amulet, ora child, ora prince ands on eth poin that as fr a6 the development ofthe plot inl is Concerned it doesnot matter which individual character doa Aideaping or does it mater what is kidnapped of stolen. Wit rate forthe lo hld together and proceed ois ending i ‘ergy ms be deprived of tome precious, valuable en. Instn, ifeigie ook beyond, the charcters—the beings—then vil teat tosefrtione This, whoever kidnapssteas/deprivs ill soph pang thei’, that which is kidnapped or stoke ‘be the valuable enttylobject, and whoever cae oe villain will al ikthood, turn out to be the hero. In iat there is no side whi i dcp fm se beginning, and no side which eae: side becomes good or bad as the tle Pry This night into the morphology ofa folks dar dance san UTERATURE FORLSH AND STRUCTURAL vw 213 the uaditional tak of describing the moray of dl inwtfaracters. Moreover it allows uo sce how excl the en er. Exch fonction then, i ite like a morphea pie mata en in the angug’ of alll Thee it ee combined co makeup 2 le, the way morphemes se fy ake 2 meant sentence. Js at thee ae re of ecb ocactic replies, for the construction of 4 combinato pce, tere ae rues of combination kind of nanatve inet ne construction of a meaningful tale, For example, atypia for th ot gin with deprivation and end wit Smudge, sential mich woul at wih mage of heh and Th pe and end with he Kiespig of th hein. wal a tea faras the syntax of | folk-tales is concerned, a meaningful folk-tale, se rod ls cnt a so jot a meaningless English sentence, gl go Pane yay Ae vox merely an isue of identifying the components of faces, but 0,2 question of method aswell. Popp it quite cat con this he eis: Let us dew an analogy. Is it possible to speak about the life of Teague without knowing anything about the pas of speech, i, inte groups of words arranged according ro the laws of ther Shang? A living language is a concrete fact—grammar is an SQarset substatum. These substata ie a the basis of a great many Tie phenomens; and ie is precisely here chat since focuses is attention, Not a single concrete fact can be expined without the ftudy ofthese abstract base... Historical research may ously bbe more interesting than morphological investigations, and a great deal has been accomplished in this regard... Yet we sal nie that as long as no correct morphological study exists, there can aso be no correct historical study... The historian, inexperienced in ‘morphological problems, will not see a resemblance where it in reality, exist; he will eave out coincidences which ate important to im. And inversely, where a smilaiy i afficmed, a speci im ‘morphology wil beable to demonstrate that compared phenomena are completely heteronomic. We se, then, that much depends on the study of forms, We shall not refuse to take upon ourselves the rude, analytical, ‘somewhat laborious work, which i in addition, complicated by the ans Sine syns anbinaton Sar a fom the standpoine of naeraken Po OF abe, fa oy Saint ™ we con the sudy of Formal aspécts of. Inthe iit Oe anaes. As we cam np eas fr te 10 oe than an clement—of Sauasyysg Me ota ee cach individ flat 6 eng inde ed pre andthe non ta aha a tance a bed by grammar, sceme ta {hit my es i ae be aio some connecicn bath Saucy The rms and the general Kantian concer SO ke ee, iration for this inspired piece op ete source ip ited pisce op we tm ‘haere i eof analysis proposed by Propp are tyes changes ehod consists mainly of finding reeumossn4l er ies This Im il is a significa meee indi ety mened beyond the text that i amare pee is ayingartenion is, for Titerary criticism al har get pe Pts of imepeation to have focused many oe oe meno wii a price wee Nee Pee necompured and coated works by a singe autho gig enc neped ous ofthe boundaries of the works by ci ‘Shor nd compared and contrasted authors, sys, periods ae Horr ibe eompaizons kad almost invariably, cen cit ‘resi of works, and in some eases, on the styles, Propp's mabe enands hat wee though the individual work infront of ws nd ae conetng eve sich works, we begin to ently recur, iF aeetrences, then we might be able ro bundle al of he gee, under some general tle, and sce what these vcuren theses ean. Thus i that Propp arives atthe funetins whi heli nd dcribesin great detail, Already a number of advange 2 le: ne ow havea much better understanding of wht e2 4 flleale nd by extension, any piece of narative) dost # sti and how xl are the factions deployed. Moreoe ¢ fav abo been able to identify a kind of a pool of functions which re war sunberofpecmutacons and. combinations, We eit Sears by Binding some other things a well—

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