A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.
Author(s): Jonathan Culler
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 365
City: London
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Contents
PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I Structuralism and Linguistic Models
1 The Linguistic Foundation
Langue, Parole
Relations
Signs
Discovery Procedures
‘Generative’ or ‘Transformational’
Consequences and Implications
2 The Development of a Method: Two Examples
The Language of Fashion
Mythological Logic
3 Jakobson’s Poetic Analyses
4 Greimas and Structural Semantics
5 Linguistic Metaphors in Criticism
The Work as System
The Work as Semiotic Project
PART II Poetics
6 Literary Competence
7 Convention and Naturalization
Ecriture, Lecture
The ‘Real’
Cultural Vraisemblance
Models of a Genre
The Conventionally Natural
Parody and Irony
8 Poetics of the Lyric
Distance and Deixis
Organic Wholes
Theme and Epiphany
Resistance and Recuperation
9 Poetics of the Novel
Lisibilité, Illisibilité
Narrative Contracts
Codes
Plot
Theme and Symbol
Character
PART III Perspectives
10 ‘Beyond’ Structuralism: Tel Quel
11 Conclusion: Structuralism and the Qualities of Literature
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
