SEMIOTICS / SEMIOLOGY / STRUCTURALISM READING LIST

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 - 1913):

• Course in General Linguistics (1916)

Jan Mukarovský (1891 - 1975):

• "On Poetic Language" (1940)

• "Poetic Designation and the Aesthetic Function of Language" (1938)

• "Standard Language and Poetic Language" (1938)

Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982):

• "Charles Baudelaire's 'Les Chats'" (1962)

• "Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry" (1960)

• "Linguistics and Poetics" (1960)

• Fundamentals of Language (1956)

• Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning (1942)

• "Langue and Parole: Code and Message" (1942)

• "The Dominant" (1935)

• "Problems in the Study of Literature and Language" (by Jakobson and Jurij Tynianov) (1928)

• "On Realism in Art" (1921)

Émile Benveniste (1902 - 1976):

• "The Correlations of Tense in the French Verb" (1969)

• "Subjectivity in Language" (1958)

• "The Nature of Pronouns" (1956)

• "Relationships of Persons in the Verb" (1946)

• "The Nature of the Linguistic Sign" (1939)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - ):

• The Savage Mind (1962)

• "The Structural Study of Myth" (1955)

• "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws" (1951)

• "The Effectiveness of Symbols" (1949)

• The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949)

• "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology" (1945)

Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980):

• "Textual Analysis of a Tale by Edgar Allan Poe" (1973)
• "Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11" (1972)
• "The Struggle with the Angel: Textual Analysis of Genesis 32: 22-32" (1971)
• "From Work to Text" (1971)
• "The Death of the Author" (1968)
• "The Reality Effect" (1968)
• "The Discourse of History" (1967)
• "An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" (1966)
• "To Write: an Intransitive Verb?" (1966)
• "The Structuralist Activity" (1963)

• Mythologies (1957)

Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992):

• "Elements of a Narrative Grammar" (1969)

• Structural Semantics (1966)

Juri M. Lotman (1922 - 1993):

• Analysis of the Poetic Text (1972)

• The Structure of the Artistic Text (1970)

Michel Riffaterre (1924 - 2006):

• "The Making of the Text" (1985)

• "The Referential Fallacy" (1978)

• Semiotics of Poetry (1978)

• "The Stylistic Approach to Literary History" (1970)

• "Criteria for Style Analysis" (1959)

Gérard Genette (1930 - ):

• Narrative Discourse: an Essay in Method (1972)

• "Frontiers of Narrative" (1966)

• "Structuralism and Literary Criticism" (1964)

Tzvetan Todorov (1939 - ):

• "The Origin of Genres" (1976)

• "Reading as Construction" (1975)

• "The Structuralist Analysis of Literature: the Tales of Henry James" (1973)

• The Fantastic: a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970)

• "Narrative Transformations" (1969)

• "Structural Analysis of Narrative" (1969)

• "The Grammar of Narrative" (1968)

• Introduction to Poetics (1968)

Russian Formalism

Boris Eichenbaum (1886 - 1959):

• "The Theory of the Formal Method" (1926)

Boris Tomashevsky (1890 - 1957):

• "Literature and Biography" (1923)

Victor Shklovsky (1893 - 1984):

• "Art as Technique" (1917)

Iurii Tynianov (1894 - 1943):

• "On Literary Evolution" (1929)

• "Problems in the Study of Literature and Language" (by Tynianov and Roman Jakobson) (1928)

Vladimir Propp (1895 - 1970):

• Morphology of the Folktale (1928)

• "Fairy Tale Transformations" (1928)