Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature is a 1975 book of critical literary theory by the critic Jonathan Culler. First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul,[1] it won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 1976 for an outstanding book of criticism.[2] It is hailed as the "most thorough and influential account" in the English-speaking world of the school of structuralism as a critical theory of literature.[3]

Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJonathan Culler
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLiterary theory
PublisherRoutledge & Kegan Paul
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint

References edit

  1. ^ Culler, Jonathan. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. iv. ISBN 0 7100 7965 6.
  2. ^ Shea, Victor (1993). "Jonathan Dwight Culler". In Makaryk, Irene Rima (ed.). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. University of Toronto Press. pp. 283-84. ISBN 0-8020-6860-X.
  3. ^ Parker, Robert Dale. How to Interpret Literature (4 ed.). Oxford UP. p. 52. ISBN 9780190855697.