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Type: documentary

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Author: Jonathan Culler

Tags: literary culture semiotics structuralism Barthes

Description: This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidatesThis acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind', whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; and to others, he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising, to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

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Author: Yuri M. Lotman

Tags: space semiotics structuralism poetics modelling plot text extra-textual

Description: Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962 and first published in Russian in 1964 - this translated edition published in 1976. Lotman's analysis of the text (or theory of art, as in the artistic text) as a semiotic system subject to interpretive modelling and structural analysis. The core of the work contains a structural analysis of the poetic text on a range of levels and is followed by the problems arising in the analysis of the text in relationship to extra-textual structures....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

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Author: Henryk Baran

Tags: culture semiotics structuralism poetics sign-systems

Description: An early-ish collection of texts on semiotics and the development of structuralism in the formerAn early-ish collection of texts on semiotics and the development of structuralism in the former Soviet Union produced in the early 1970s. A collection of translations of texts by Soviet semioticians and literary theorists first appearing in Soviet Studies in Literature and Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology....

2005-10-30