Idioms

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Of means: having substantial resources; wealth 
 Custom: a traditional and widely accepted way of behaing or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place or time 
 Wealthy: having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich 
 Landed grentry: members of the aristocracy who owned much land 
 Burden: a wooden case used for transporting goods 
 Chance: a possibility of something happening 
 To last: continue for a specified period of time 
 To undertake: commit oneself
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The saussurean theory of language and its influence on a literary theory

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Ferdinand de Saussure – Swiss linguist, a founder of modern structural linguistcs.
An attempt to apply to literature his methods and insights laid down in “Course in General
Linguistics” (1916) resulted in the emergance of a new movement in literary theories called
structuralism that flourished in the 1960s. Its ambition was to discover underlying structure of
literature; it tried to analyse literature in the most scientific and schematic way. A literary text was
for structuralists a structural whole
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