GENETIC STRUCTURAL APPROACH

GENETIC STRUCTURAL APPROACH
(study of human science)

It was found by a Rumanian-French philosopher and sociologist, Lucien Goldman.

The genetic structuralism research regards a literary work from intrinsic and extrinsic elements. It studies both the internal factors (it means literary work itself) and external one (concern on social background (the interesting one from the author, etc.).

The genetic structuralism theory aims to analyzing the character of the work or the author’s worldview through a character that is created by an author in every situation and even in the story. In details, this theory attempts to analyze the literary work from two elements, those are: intrinsic and extrinsic element. Intrinsic element is the structure of literary work and the extrinsic element is the social condition or history that forms the literary work like novel.

To support this theory, Goldman builds five categories that relevant to each other:

1.      Human realities

2.      Collective subject

3.    Word view (there is relation between the structure of works and the structure of society, because both of them come from the same structure activities (activities of human being))

4.      Structure of literary work

5.      Dialectics of comprehension and explanation