SEMIOTIC / SEMIOLOGICAL / STRUCTURALIST LITERARY THEORY
(INC. RUSSIAN FORMALISM, PRAGUE SCHOOL, PARIS SCHOOL, MOSCOW-TARTU SCHOOL)

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Schools (listed in alphabetical order) / Philosophers / Theorists:

• Italian School:
  • Umberto Eco (1932 - )
• Moscow-Tartu School:

  • Juri M. Lotman (1922 - 1993)

  • Boris Uspensky (1937 - )

• Netherlands:
  • Mieke Bal (1946 - )
• Paris School:
  • Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980)
  • Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992)
  • Michel Riffaterre (1924 - 2006)
  • Bremond, Claude (1929 - )
  • Gérard Genette (1930 - )
  • Tzvetan Todorov (1939 - )
• Prague School:
  • Jan Mukarovský (1891 - 1975)
  • Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982)
  • René Wellek (1903 - 1995) (see also New Criticism)
  • Felix Vodicka ( - )
• USA:
  • Jonathan Culler (1944 - )
  • Gerald Prince ( - )

Related Pages:

• Form and Genre
• Russian Formalism

Feminist:

• Structuralist Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Structuralist Post-colonial Literary Theory

COURSES

• General:
• Italian School:
• Moscow-Tartu School:
• Paris School:
  • University of Toronto: Aspects of Structuralism (Le Huenen)
• Prague School:

JOURNALS

• Communications

• Poetics Today: Journal for the Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication (formerly Poetics and the Theory of Literature -- PTL)

• Poétique

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Babb, Howard S., ed.  Essays in Stylistic Analysis.  New York: , 1972.

    • Chatman, Seymour, and Samuel Levin, eds.  Essays on the Language of Literature.  Boston: , 1969.

    • Culler, Jonathan, ed.  Structuralism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2006.

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

  • Italian School:

  • Moscow-Tartu School:

    • Faccani, Reno, and Umberto Eco, eds.  Semiotica della letteraturea in URSS.  1969.

    • Lucid, Daniel P., ed.  Russian Poetics in Translation. 

      • General Semiotics.  Vol. 3.  1976.

      • Poetry and Prose.  Vol. 2.  1976.

      • Vol. 1. 

    • Soviet Semiotics and Criticism: an Anthology.  New Literary History 9 (1978).

    • Soviet Semiotics of Literature and Culture.  PTL: a Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 3 (1978).

  • Paris School:

    • Barthes, Roland, ed.  Special Issue on the Structural Analysis of Narrative.  Communications 8 (1966).

    • Chabrol, Claude, ed.  Sémiotique narrative et textuelle.  Paris: Larousse, 1973.

  • Prague School:

    • Garvin, Paul L., ed.  A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure and Style.  Washington: Georgetown University UP, 1955.  Rpt. 1964.

    • Matejka, Ladislav, and Irwin R. Titunik, eds.  Semiotics of Art: Prague School Contributions.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:
  • Italian School:
  • Moscow-Tartu School:
    • Uspensky, Boris.  The Poetics of Composition: Structure of the Poetic Text and the Typology of Compositional Forms.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.
    • Uspensky, Boris.  Principles of Structural Typology.  Berlin: Mouton, 1968.

  • Paris School:

    • Adam, Jean-Michel.  L'Analyse des récits.  Paris: Seuil, 1996.

    • Adam, Jean-Michel.  Le Texte narratif.  Paris: Nathan Université, 1985.

    • Coquet, Jean-Claude.  Sémiotique littéraire.  Tours: Mame, 1973.

    • Courtès, Joseph.  Introduction à la sémiotique narrative et discursive: Méthodologie et application.  Paris: Hachette, 1976.

  • Prague School:

  • Genres:
    • Drama:
      • Alter, Jean.  A Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.
      • Carlson, Marvin.  Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life.  1990.
      • De Toro, Ferdinand. "Towards a Socio-Semiotics of the Theatre."  Semiotica 72 (1988): .
      • De Toro, Ferdinand. "Towards a Specification of Theatre Discourse."  Versus 54 (1989): .
      • Elam, Keir.  The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama.  London: Routledge, 1980.
      • Pavel, Thomas.  The Poetics of Plot: the Case of English Renaissance Drama.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
      • Pavis, Patrice.  Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre.  PAJ, 1982.
    • Film:
      • Silverman, Kaja.  The Subject of Semiotics.  Oxford: OUP, 1983.
    • Poetry:
      • Cabot, Michael.  Haley The Semiotics of Poetic Metaphor.  1988.
      • Nimis, Stephen.  Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: the Simile.  1987.
      • Riffaterre, Michel.  The Semiotics of Poetry.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
    • Prose Fiction:
      • Krysinski, Wladimir.  Carrefours des signes: Essais sur le roman moderne.  1982.
      • Le Huenen, Ronald, and Paul Perron.  Balzac: Semiotique du personnage romanesque: L'exemple d' "Eugénie Grandet".  1980.

On-Line:

• General:

• Italian School:
• Moscow-Tartu School:
• Paris School:
• Prague School:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Zima, Peter V., ed.  Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981.

  • Italian School:
  • Moscow-Tartu School:
  • Paris School:
  • Prague School:
  • Russian Formalism:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

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

    • Culler, Jonathan.   The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
    • Culler, Jonathan.  Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1975.
    • Eagleton, Terry.  "Structuralism and Semiotics."  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.  91-126.
    • Fowler, Roger.  The Languages of Literature.  London: , 1971.
    • Harland, Richard.  "20th Century Russian Theory."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  146-165.
    • Harland, Richard.  "French Structuralism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  219-237.
    • Harland, Richard.  "Saussure."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  135-137.

    • Jameson, Frederic.  The Prison-House of Language: a Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

    • Jefferson, Ann.  "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  84-112.

    • Jackson, Leonard.  The Poverty of Structuralism: Literature and Structuralist Theory.  London: Longman, 1991.
    • Leech, Geoffrey N.  A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry.  London: , 1969.
    • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Literary Structuralism and Semiotics."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  238-266.
    • Lentricchia, Frank.  "Uncovering History and the Reader: Structuralism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  102-154.
    • Prince, Gerald.  "Narratology."  The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8.  Ed. Raman Selden. 

    • Ray, William.  "Structuralism and Semiotics."  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.  109-149.

    • Robey, David.  "Modern Linguistics and the Language of Literature."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  38-64.

    • Scholes, Robert.  Protocols of Reading.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
    • Scholes, Robert.  Semiotics and Interpretation.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1982.

    • Scholes, Robert.  Structuralism in Literature: an Introduction.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1974.

    • "Towards a Semiotics of Literature."  What is Literature?  Ed. Paul Hernadi.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.  231-250.

    • Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg.  The Nature of Narrative.  Oxford: OUP, 1966.

    • Selden, Raman.  "Structuralist Theories."  A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1989.  51-69.

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

    • Tyson, Lois.  "Structuralist Criticism."
     Critical Theory Today.  New York: Garland, 1999.  197-240.
  • Italian School:

  • Moscow-Tartu School:

    • Broms, Henri, and Rebecca Kaufman.  Semiotics of Culture.  1988.

    • Rudy, Stephen.  "Semiotics in the USSR."  The Semiotic Sphere.  Ed. Thomas Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok.  Plenum 1986.

    • Scheffcyzyk, A.  "Moscow-Tartu School."  Vol. I. of Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics.  3 Vols.  Ed. Thomas Sebeok.  Berlin: Moutarde Gruyter, 1986.

    • Segal, Dimitri.  Aspects of Structuralism in Soviet Philology.  1974.

    • Seyffert, Peter.  Soviet Literary Structuralism: Background -- Debate -- Issues.  Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1983.

  • Paris School:

    • Jameson, Frederic.  "The Structuralist Projection."  The Prison-House of Language: a Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.  100-216.

  • Prague School:

    • Dolezel, L., and J. Kraus.  "Prague School Stylistics."  Current Trends in Stylistics.  Ed. D, B, Kachru and H. F. STahlke.  Edmonton: , 1972.

    • Striedter, Jurij.  Literary Structure, Evolution and Value: Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism Reconsidered.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.

    • Wellek, René.  The Literary Theory and Aesthetics of the Prague School.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1969.  Rpt. in Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.  275-303. 

    • Wellek, René.  "The Revolt Against Positivism in Recent European Literary Scholarship."  Twentieth Century English.  Ed. W. S. Knickerbocker.  New York: Philosphical Library, 1946.  67-89.  Rpt. in Concepts of Criticism.  256-281.
    • Wellek, René.  "Theory of Literary History."  Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 6 (1936): 173-191.  Rpt. in Theory of Literature.  252-269.

    • Winner, Thomas G.  "The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Prague Linguistic Circle."  Poetics 8 (1973): . 

On-Line:

• General:

  • Felluga, Dino: Introduction to Narratology

  • Lye, John: Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to Literary Theory

  • Merrell, Floyd: Semiotics and Literary Studies

  • Pateman, Trevor: Structuralism and Narrative

  • Prince, Gerald: Narratology (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

  • Sprinker, Michael: From Prague to Paris: Formalism as a Method in Literary Study

  • Surdulescu, Radu:

    • Russian Formalism: the Systemic Nature of Literariness

    • Structuralism, Semiotics, Narratology:

      • The Semiotic Analysis of the Literary Text

      • Pre-Structuralist and Structuralist Narratology

      • Structuralist Poetics

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