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Structuralism and Literary CriticismAuthor(s): T. TodorovSource: Yale French Studies, No. 36/37, Structuralism (1966), pp. 269-270Published by: Yale University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2930412 .

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T. Todorov

Structuralism and literary criticism

This bibliography is limited to theoretical works based especially on the methods of structural linguistics. Barthes, R. Essais critiques, Paris, 1964. A number of these essays treat struc-

tural analysis in literature. Erlich, V. Russian Formalism, History-Doctrine, 's-Gravenhage, 1955. At the

present time this is the best study of the formalists. Garvin, P., ed. A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure, and

Style, Washington, D.C., 1964. Texts by Mukarovsky, B. Havrainek, F. Vodicka, V. Prochaizka.

Genette, G. "Structuralism et critique litteraire," in L'Arc, 26 (Levi-Strauss), 1965. A theoretical study.

Levin, S. R. "Deviation - Statistical and Determinate - in Poetic Language," in Lingua 12 (1963), 3. An application of the notion of grammaticality to poetic language.

Levi-Strauss, C. "La Structure et la forme," in Cahliers de l'institute de Sciences economiques applique'es, 99, 1960. A discussion of some fundamental notions beginning with the work of V. Propp.

Levi-Strauss, C., and Jakobson, R. "Les Chats de Baudelaire," in L'Homme, II (1962), No. 1: 5-21. Example of the structural analysis of a sonnet.

Lotman, JU.M. Lekcii po struktural'noj poetike vyp. I (Trudy po znakovym sistemam, I), Transactions of the Tartu State University, Tartu, 1964. In the tradition of Russian formalism.

Mukarovsky, J. "Strukturalismus v estetice a ve vede o literature," in Kapitoly z ceske' poetiky dil I: Obecne veci ba'snictvi. 20, Nakladatelstvi Svododa, Praha, 1948. One of the founders of the Prague Linguistic Circle writes about structuralism and literary analysis.

Poetics. Poetyka. Poetika. PWN-Mouton, Varsovie - 's-Gravenhage, 1961. Acts of a Congress on poetics; several of the papers are concerned with the structural study of literarture.

Propp, V. Morphology of the Folktale, Bloomington, Ind., 1958. A structural study of the fantastic tale; the Russian original appeared in 1928.

Readings in Russian Poetics, Michigan Slavic Materials, 2, Ann Arbor, 1962. A reprint, in Russian, of the most valuable texts of the Russian formalists. Included are: M. M. Batin, B. M. Ejenbaum, R. Jakobson, Ju. Tynjanov, V. V. Vinogradov, V. N. Volosinov.

Revzin, I. I. "O celjax strukturnogo izucenija xudozestvennogo tvorcestva," Vorposy literatury, 6, 1965. A theoretical study.

Rossi, A. "Structuralismo e analisi letteraria," Paragone, 1, 180, 1964. An overall view which includes a bibliography.

Ruwet, N. "L'analyse structurale de la poesie," Linguistics 2, 1963. Discussion and concrete analysis of S. R. Levin's Linguistic Structures in Poetry (1962).

Sebeok, Th. A., ed. Style in Language, Cambridge, Mass., 1960. Acts of an interdisciplinary conference.

Simpozium po strukturnomu izuceniju znakovyx sistem. Tezisy dokladov. Mos- cow, 1962. Some of the papers are devoted to the structural study of literature.

Souriau, E. Les deux cent mille situations dramatiques, Paris, 1950. An important precursor of structural analysis in literature.

Stender-Petersen, A. "Esquisse d'une theorie structurale de la litterature,"

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Reclherches Structurales, TCLC, 5, Copenhagen, 1949. A theory of litterature derived from glossematics.

The'orie de la litte'rature. Textes des formalistes russes, Paris 1966. A selection of the most important texts of the Russian formalists.

Todorov, T. "L'Heritage methodologique du formalisme," L'Homme, 1, 1965. Sets Russian formalism off against the present state of structural lin- quistics.

Wellek, R., Warren, A. Theory of Literature, 3rd ed., New York, 1963. A clas- sic and indispensable handbook.

The Editor

Selected General Bibliography

Bastide, Roger ed., Sens et usage du terme structure dans les sciences humaines et sociales, LaHaye, Mouton & Co., 1962.

Gandillac, Maurice de, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Piaget edd., Entretiens sur les notions de genese et de structure, La Haye, Mouton & Co., 1965.

Hoijer, Harry ed., Language in Culture, Proceedings of a Conference on the Interrelations of Language and the other Aspects of Culture held in Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Communications, special issue on "Recherches semiologiques," No. 4, Paris, Le Seuil, 1964. (Contains a critical bibliography on semiotics.)

Revue internationale de philosophie, special issue on "La notion de structure," No. 73-74, 1965, fasc. 3-4.

Sebag, Lucien, Marxisme et structuralisme, Paris, Payot, 1964. Simpozium po strukturnomo izucheni ju zuakovyh sistem, Academy of Science

of the USSR, Moscow, 1962. (Symposium on the structural study of systems of signs.)

Verstraeten, Pierre, Esquisse pour une critique de la raison structuraliste, doctoral dissertation, University of Bruxelles, 1964.

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