Response 2 - Structuralism

Structuralism often achieves as kind of distillation of texts, ideally rendering the outline or skeleton. This is particuarly useful for comparative purposes: say, analyzing all Russian folk tales. In the case of a text like on eof the Grimm's tales, does a structuralist approach enhance your appreciation or diminish the tale? (It's not a coincidence that relatively few structuralist analyses take on poetry, a form in which surface or textural elements are significant.)  Does structuralism allow for the appreciation of the "literary" elements of a text?