Word: structuralist
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...Frye's glorification of the imagination is Romantic and his political stance and commitment to free discussion brand him as a liberal, his approach to literature is structuralist, in the very loosest sense of the term. Frye's concern is not with style or literary history or the psychological or social bases of literary expression. He believes rather that each work of art is rooted within a mythological framework derived, in our culture, from the Bible. Frye's main theoretical interest in recent years has been the classification of the various narrative movements and symbolic elements which characterize particular literary...
...place Percy in an anti-Chomskian camp or an anti structuralist camp would be misleading, however; the 20 years' worth of essays newly collected in The Message in the Bottle are nothing if not iconoclastic. Percy styles himself a solitary thinker, sitting for from the inhospitable blinding turmoll of the university. The first essay in this volume is subtitled "How I Discovered the Delta Factor Sitting at My Desk One Summer Day in Louisiana in the 1950's Thinking About an Event in the Life of Helen Keller on Another Summer Day in Alabama...
...story of ideas. Like the novel of ideas each story does not simply attempt to mirror reality but to create a new world of the imagination that is a separate and additional part of reality. In a way Davenport's stories are to literature what Frank Lloyd Wright's structuralist buildings are to architecture. They are both functional and graceful; their structure explains their function of preserving and discussing ideas...
Mead subsequently modified her views, and other anthropologists and linguists came along with different notions. Noam Chomsky contends that the way people learn languages and the structure of those languages are basically the same the world over. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structuralist, gathered thousands of myths from different cultures and demonstrated that beyond their great diversity were even greater similarities. At the deepest level, believes Lévi-Strauss, there is an implacable pattern ingrained in the human intellect and this pattern has not changed since primitive times...
President Bok appoints Claude Levi-Straus to be the New University Architect. "We need a good Structuralist around here", Bok explains. "Now that we've built Gund Hall, maybe Dr. Levi can tell us what it's for." In an uncharacteristic display of independence, the Senate erupts in a barrage of catcalls and Bronx cheers until Spiro Agnew and a phalanx of Sergeant-at-Arms convince Congressional spitoons to turn on their former masters Frank Fisher, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning releases a report entitled What the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1973 Wants...