Structuralism or criticism?

thoughts on how we read

Written by: Geoffrey Strickland
Category: Non Fiction
Genre: Education, Language

Book Details:

ISBN 10: 0521276578
ISBN 13: 9780521276573
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1983-09-29
Language: English
Condition: Very Good
Appearance: The book is in very good condition with minimal signs of wear. The cover is clean with no noticeable marks or damage. The spine is intact and the pages are free from any markings, highlighting, or annotations.

Synopsis:

Geoffrey Strickland's book considers some of the principal Structuralist theories of the sixties and seventies, which derive from the 'semiology' or 'science of signs' postulated by the Swiss linguistician Saussure at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book falls into three parts. In the first, Strickland argues that, in one essential, the structuralist enterprise was misconceived. The second and most substantial part of the book is a defence of certain fundamental presuppositions in the act of reading. There is a discussion of the nature and accessibility of authorial intention, of the necessary fallibility in our understanding of what we read, of the objective aspect of evaluation and of the sense in which the student of literature is also a student of history. In the final section, the author summarises the arguments of the book with a detailed comparison of the writings of Roland Barthes and F. R. Levis. Strickland has produced a lively and provocative contribution to literary debates on structuralism, which ranges widely over both French and English criticism and literary theory.

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