{"product_id":"2026200015097-secondhand-structuralist-poetics-structuralism-linguistics-and-the-study-of-literature","title":"Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism Linguistics And The Study Of Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed the way scholars understand and interpret literature. Jonathan Culler presents a rigorous and illuminating account of how structuralism — the intellectual movement that swept through European thought in the mid-twentieth century — can be applied to the systematic study of literary texts, arguing that meaning in literature is not inherent but is produced through shared conventions and codes that readers bring to the act of reading.\n\nDrawing on the groundbreaking theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, and Gérard Genette, Culler constructs a compelling case for a poetics that treats literature as a rule-governed institution, much like language itself. Written with a clarity and intellectual precision rare in academic discourse, this seminal text reshaped the landscape of Anglo-American literary theory upon its publication, earning the prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize. For anyone seeking to understand the deep structures that underpin narrative, poetry, and interpretation itself, this work poses a question that lingers long after the final page: if meaning is a convention, who truly controls the text — the author, the reader, or the system that binds them both?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203189186779,"sku":"2026200015097-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dcb1b1c7-4fc1-43cf-8168-012e4861e465.png?v=1788145350","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015097-secondhand-structuralist-poetics-structuralism-linguistics-and-the-study-of-literature","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}