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English 478S:
Literary and Cultural Theory
from
Plato to the Present

Jefferson Hendricks
English Department
Centenary College of Louisiana
Fall 2010

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Week Nine -- October 18:
"Structuralism and Semiotics"

Ferdinand de Saussure, "Introduction," pp. 845-849.
Claude Levi-Strauss, "Introduction," pp. 1273-1277.
Roland Barthes, from Mythologies; "The Death of the Author," "From Work to Text," pp. 1316-1331. [1957-1971]
Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1332-1360. [1969]
Tzvetan Todorov, "Structural Analysis of Literature," pp. 2021-2030. [1969]
Hayden White, "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact," pp. 1533-1552. [1978]
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from Glossary of Literary Theory (Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown):

On-Line Resources for
"Structuralism and Semiotics"

Structuralism -- The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Structuralism/Post-Structuralism -- Mary Klages, U. of Colorado
Some Elements of Structuralism and Its Application to Literary Theory -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
summary of Gerard Genette's "Structuralism and Literary Criticism" -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
lecture on Structuralism -- Bruce Thompson, U. of California, Santa Cruz
Structuralism -- C. John Holcombe, textetc.com

Structuralism -- Dougie Bicket, k.i.s.s. of the panopticon
Structuralism and Semiotics -- Allen Brizee, J. Case Tompkins, Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
on Saussure, Levi-Strauss, and Structuralism -- Tim Spurgin, Lawrence U.
Structuralism and Semiotics -- John William Phillips, The National U. of Singapore
Structuralist Linguistics and Anthropology -- John William Phillips, The National U. of Singapore
"Structuralism, Semiotics, Narratology" -- Radu Surdulescu, U. of Bucharest, Romania [from Form, Structure, and Structurality in Critical Theory]
"Pre-Structuralist and Structuralist Narratology" -- Radu Surdulescu, U. of Bucharest, Romania [from Form, Structure, and Structurality in Critical Theory]
"Structuralist Poetics" -- Radu Surdulescu, U. of Bucharest, Romania [from Form, Structure, and Structurality in Critical Theory]

On Linguistics and Literature [on Roman Jakobsen] -- Paul H. Fry, Yale U. [video lecture]
Semiotics and Structuralism [on Levi-Struss and Barthes] -- Paul H. Fry, Yale U. [video lecture]

Structuralism and Saussure -- Mary Klages, U. of Colorado, Boulder
brief summary of Saussure's Course on General Linguistics -- Michael Bryson, California State U., Northridge
notes on Saussure's Course on General Linguistics -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
"The Poet Who Could Smell Vowells" -- John E. Joseph, U. of Edinburgh
notes on Saussure's Course on General Linguistics -- John William Phillips, The National U. of Singapore

Roland Barthes -- Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
Roland Barthes: Mythologies (1957) -- Tony McNeill, U. of Sunderland, U.K.
"'The Death of the Author' as an Instance of Theory" -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
Death of the Author -- Wikipedia
Death of the Author -- Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, The Electronic Labyrinth
notes on Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
notes on Barthes's "From Work to Text" -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text" -- Timothy R. Quigley, The New School
"From Work to Text?" -- Lisa Smith, Brock U., Canada
module on Barthes as structuralist -- Dino Pelluga, Purdue U.

Louis Althusser -- Dougie Bicket, k.i.s.s. of the panopticon
Louis Althusser -- Daniel Chandler, U. of Wales, Aberystwyth
Louis Althusser -- Andy Blunden, Marxists. org
Louis Althusser's 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses -- Mary Klages, U. of Colorado, Boulder
module on Althusser and Ideology/ISAs -- Dino Felluga, Purdue U.
summary of Althusser's ideas on ISAs -- Ron Strickland, Illinois State U.
Louis Althusser -- William Lewis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Hayden White for Absolute Beginners -- K. F. Hilliard, St. Peter's College, Oxford

notes on Metahistory -- Vicki Rea, Lehigh U.
notes on White's "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact" -- Marianne Stecher-Hansen, U. of Washington
"Hayden White: Beyond Irony" -- Ewa Domanska, Adam Mickiewicz U., Poland
"Hayden White's Narrative Theory of Discovery" -- Craig Stroupe, U. of Minnesota, Duluth