SEMIOTICS / SEMIOLOGY / STRUCTURALISM READING LIST
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 - 1913):
Course in General Linguistics (1916)
"On Poetic Language" (1940)
"Poetic Designation and the Aesthetic Function of Language" (1938)
"Standard Language and Poetic Language" (1938)
"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)
Mythologies (1957)
Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992):
"Elements of a Narrative Grammar" (1969)
Structural Semantics (1966)
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)
Narrative Discourse: an Essay in Method (1972)
"Frontiers of Narrative" (1966)
"Structuralism and Literary Criticism" (1964)
"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)
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)
"On Literary Evolution" (1929)
"Problems in the Study of Literature and Language" (by Tynianov and Roman Jakobson) (1928)
Morphology of the Folktale (1928)
"Fairy Tale Transformations" (1928)