Kamal Abbasi -
A Structuralist Reading of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
(pag. 51-58)
Structuralism as a scientific method is applied to all fields, including literature, in order to find the deep and underlying structure common to variegated forms and shapes. When applied to literature and fiction, structuralism focuses in particular on two aspects of the work, genre and narrative. Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure can be analyzed in terms of structuralism thus enriching one’s understanding and perception of the novel. In this paper the genre of the work is decided on by recourse to Frye’s theory of genre, and the article aims to demonstrate how the genre is projected onto the narrative by dissecting the text according to A.J. Greimas’ theory of narrative.