FOUNDATION WEEK: SEMIOTICS

• 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"

• Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics: (see extract in Leitch; also in Adams and Searle)

• 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: 
  • "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws" (also in folder)
  • "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology" (also 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