Introduction

Almost thirty years have passed since the anni mirabiles of 1966 and 1967-the years that saw the publication of many critical studies now counted among the modern classics of the literary discipline: Gérard Genette’s Figures I (1966), A.J.Greimas’s Sémantique structurale (l966), Roland Barthes’s ‘Introduction a l’analyse structurale des récits’ and his Critique et vérité (both 1966), Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘Les categories du récit littéraire’ (1966) and his Littérature et signification (1967), as well as Jacques Derrida’s first triplet De la gram matologie, La Voix et le phénomène and L’Écriture et la différance (all 1967).