(POST-)STRUCTURALISMS

SUB-SCHOOLS

• Definitions

Sub-Schools:

• Derridean Deconstruction

• Deleuzean Theory

• Dialogism (the Bakhtin Circle)

• Foucauldian Discourse Theory

• Semiology / Structuralism

• Structuralist Marxism

• Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalysis

Feminist:

• (Post-)Structuralist Feminist Theory

Post-colonial:

• (Post-)Structuralist Post-colonial Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• UK Political Studies Association: Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Specialist Group

CONFERENCES

COURSES

• Monash University: Semiotics and Post-Structuralism (Vladiv-Glover)
• University of Queensland: Critical Theory: Lacan, Derrida and Since (Thwaites)

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Ffrench, Patrick, and Roland-Francois Lack, eds.  The Tel Quel Reader.  London: Routledge, 1998.

    • Young, Robert, ed.  Untying the Text: a Post-Structuralist Reader.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

  • Arts:

    • Harari, Joshué, ed.  Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1979.

    • Macksey, Richard, and Eugenio Donato, eds.  The Structuralist Controversy: the Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1970.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

  • Arts:

    • Culler, Jonathan.  "Poststructuralist Criticism."  Style 21 (1987): 167-180.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Rajan, Tilottama, and Michael J. O'Driscoll, eds.  After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002.

    • Sturrock, John, ed.  Structuralism and Since: from Lévi-Strauss to Derrida.  Oxford: OUP, 1979.

    • Young, Robert, ed.  Untying the Text: a Post-structuralist Reader.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

  • Arts:

    • Norris, Christopher, and Richard Machin, eds.  Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.

  • History:

    • Attridge, Derek, et al., ed.  Post-Structuralism and the Question of History.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

    • Belsey, Catherine.  Poststructuralism: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

    • Berman, Art.  From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: the Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1988.

    • Davis, Colin.  After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory.  London: Routledge, 2004.

    • Dosse, François.  Le Chant du cygne, de 1967 à nos jours.  Vol. 2 of  Histoire du structuralisme.  2 Vols.  Paris: La Découverte, 1992.
      • The Sign Sets, 1967-Present.  Vol. 2 of History of Structuralism.  2 Vols.  Trans. Deborah Glassman.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.

    • Eagleton, Terry.  "Post-Structuralism."  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.  127-150.

    • Easthope, Antony.  British Post-Structuralism Since 1968.  London: Routledge, 1991.

    • Frank, Manfred.  Was ist Neostrukturalismus?.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984.

      • What is Neostructuralism?  Trans. S. Walker and R. Gray.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.

    • Gutting, Gary.  "Poststructuralism."  French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.  249-257.

    • Harland, Richard.  Beyond Superstructuralism: the Syntagmatic Side of Language.  London: Routledge, 1993.
    • Harland, Richard.  Superstructuralism: the Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism.  London: Methuen, 1987.  Rpt. Routledge, 1991.
    • Jefferson, Ann.  "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  84-112.
    • Kurzweil, Edith.  The Age of Structuralism: from Lévi-Strauss to Foucault.  New York: Columbia UP, 1980.  Rpt. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1996.

    • Lechte, John.  Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: from Structuralism to Postmodernity.  London: Routledge, 1994.

    • Leitch, Vincent.  Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1992.

    • Lentricchia, Frank.  "History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  156-211.

    • Merquior, J. G.  "Structuralism into Post-structuralism: an Overview."  From Prague to Paris: a Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thought.  London: Verso, 1986.  189-260.

    • Miller, Paul Allen.  Postmodern Spiritual Practices: the Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault.  Columbus:  Ohio State UP, 2007.

    • Palmer, Donald.  Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners.  Writers and Readers, 2001.

    • Payne, Michael.  Reading Knowledge: an Introduction to Barthes, Foucault and Althusser.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

    • Payne, Michael.  Reading Theory: an Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 1993.

    • Rajan, Tilottama.  Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002.

    • Rajan, Tilottama.  "The Double Detour: Sartre, Heidegger and the Genealogy of Deconstruction."  After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory.  Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Michael J. O'Driscoll.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002.  43-87.

    • Sarup, Madan.  An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.  

    • Schrift, Alan.  Nietzsche's French Legacy: a Genealogy of Poststructuralism.  London: Routledge, 1995.

    • Schroeder, William.  "Philosophies of Dispersion."  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  267-296.

    • West, David.  "Beyond the Subject: Structuralism and Poststructuralism."  An Introduction to Continental Philosophy.  Cambridge: Polity, 1996.  154-188.

    • Williams, James.  Understanding Poststructuralism.  Chesham: Acumen, 2005.

  • Arts:

    • Baldick, Chris.  "Literary Theory and Textual Politics since 1968."  Criticism and Literary Theory: 1890 to the Present.  London: Longman, 1996.  161-208.

    • Lentricchia, Frank.  "History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  156-210.

    • Tallis, Raymond.  Not Saussure: a Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory.  New York: St. Martin's, 1995.

  • Communication:

    • Coward, Rosalind, and John Ellis.  Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject.  London: Routledge, 1977.

  • Human Nature:

    • Coward, Rosalind, and John Ellis.  Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject.  London: Routledge, 1977.

    • Grosz, Elizabeth.  "Contemporary Theories of Power and Subjectivity."  Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct.  Ed. Sneja Gunew.  London: Routledge, 1990.  59-128.

    • Strozier, Robert M.  Saussure, Derrida and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988.

  • Society:

    • Dews, Peter.  Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory.  London: Verso, 1987.

    • Grosz, Elizabeth.  "Contemporary Theories of Power and Subjectivity."  Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct.  Ed. Sneja Gunew.  London: Routledge, 1990.  59-128.
    • Hanssen, Beatrice.  Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory.  London: Routledge, 2000.

    • May, Todd.  The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1999.

    • Rose, Gillian.  Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

On-Line:

• General:
  • Klages, Mary: Structuralism / Poststructuralism
  • Lye, John: Some Post-Structuralist Assumptions

  • Maley, Willy: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism

  • Peters, Michael: (Posts-)Modernism and Structuralism: Affinities and Theoretical Innovations

  • Quigley, T. R.: Structuralism and Poststructuralism

  • Radford, Gary P., and Marie L. Radford: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and the Library: Saussure and Foucault

  • Rehmann, Jan: Deleuze and Foucault: Towards a Deconstruction of Postmodernist Neo-Nietzscheanism Situations 2.1 (2007)

  • Thwaite, Mark: What is Poststructuralism? ReadySteadyBook

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Category: Poststructuralism

      • Post-Structuralism

• Arts:

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Post-Structuralist Narrative Theory

• Education:

  • Bush, Harold K.: Poststructuralism as Theory and Practice in the English Classroom

  • Peters, Michael: Poststructuralism and Education

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