E33D / E60C MODULE ONE: SEMIOTICS / STRUCTURALISM

Recommended Readings:

• Patrick Colm Hogan Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature:
  • "Social and Political Philosophy: Ideological Critique, Feminism, Theories of Culture and Power, Postmodernism"
  • "Philosophy of Language and Linguistic Autonomism: Formalism, Bakhtinian Dialogism, Structuralism, Deconstruction"
• Ania Loomba Colonialism / Postcolonialism:
  • "Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies"
  • "Colonial and Postcolonial Identities"

Sem. 2: Saussurean Linguistics

• Ferdinand Saussure "From Course in General Linguistics" (in Adams and Searle)

Recommended Readings: 

• Derek Attridge "The Linguistic Model and its Applications" (section on Saussure) (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction; "Structuralism and Semiotics" (section on Saussure)
• David Robey Modern Literary Theory: "Modern Linguistics and the Language of Literature" (section on Saussure)

• Claude Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropology: 
  • "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology" (in folder)
  • "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws" (in folder)

• Derek Attridge "The Linguistic Model and its Applications" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
• Edmund Leach Claude Levi-Strauss

Sem. 1: the Saussurean Critique of ‘Realism’

• Roland Barthes
  • Mythologies: "Myth Today" (also in folder)
  • The Rustle of Language: "The Reality Effect" (also in Lillian First, ed. Realism; also in folder)

Sem. 2: the Saussurean Critique of ‘Self-expression’

• Emile Benveniste Problems in General Linguistics:
  • "The Nature of Pronouns" (also in folder)
  • "Subjectivity in Language" (also in Adams and Searle)
• Stanley Fish "Say It Ain't So" (Chronicle of Higher Education 21/6/02)

• Tzvetan Todorov 
  • "Structural Analysis of Narrative" (in Leitch)
  • The Poetics of Prose: "The Grammar of Narrative" (also in folder)

Sem. 2: Linguistics and Poetics

• Roman Jakobson "Linguistics and Poetics" (in Leitch)

• Jonathan Culler Structuralist Poetics
• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction; "Structuralism and Semiotics" (section on Structuralism)
• Ann Jefferson "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism" (section on Structuralism) (in Jefferson and Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
• Gerald Prince "Narratology" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
• Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today: "Structuralist Criticism"