ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|128 pages
Structuralism and Linguistic Models
chapter 1|34 pages
The Linguistic Foundation
chapter 3|23 pages
Jakobson's Poetic Analysis
chapter 4|25 pages
Greimas and Structural Semantics
chapter 5|17 pages
Linguistic Metaphors in Criticism
part II|150 pages
Poetics
chapter 6|22 pages
Literary Competence
chapter 7|35 pages
Convention and Naturalization
chapter 8|33 pages
Poetics of the Lyric
chapter 9|58 pages
Poetics of the Novel
part III|31 pages
Perspectives
