Primary Sources   I   Structuralism

Roland Barthes, "L’Activité structuraliste" (1963, "The Structuralist Activity," Critical Essays trans. Richard Howard, 1972).

Roland Barthes, "Éléments de sémiologie" (1964, Elements of Semiology, trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, 1967).

Roland Barthes, "Introduction à l’analyse structurale des récits" (1966, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives," Image—Music—Text ed. and trans. Stephen Heath, 1977).

Claude Bremond, Logique du récit (1973).

Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie (1967, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1976, rev. ed., 198).

Jacques Derrida, L’Écriture et la différence (1967, Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass, 1978).

A. J. Greimas, Maupassant: La Sémiotique du texte: Exercices pratiques (1976, Maupassant: The Semiotics of Text: Practical Exercises, trans. Paul Perron, 1988).

A. J. Greimas, On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (trans. Paul Perron and Frank Collins, 1987).

A. J. Greimas, Sémantique structurale: Recherche de méthode (1966, Structural Semantics: An Attempt at Method,  trans. Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer and Alan Velie, 1983).

A. J. Greimas and J. Courtés, Sémiotique: Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage (1979, Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary, trans. Larry Crist et al., 1982).

Roman Jakobson, "Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry," Language and Literature (by Roman Jakobson, ed. Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy, 1968).

Roman Jakobson, "Romantic Panslavism—New Slavic Studies" (1929, Selected Writings, vol. 2, 1971).

Roman Jakobson, "Signum et Signatum" (1936, "Signum et Signatum," trans. M. Heim, Semiotics of Art: Prague School Contributions, ed. Ladislav Matejka and Irwin R. Titunik, 1976).

Roman Jakobson, "What Is Poetry?" (1934, trans. M. Heim, Language and Literature).

Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Les Chats’" (1962, trans. Katie Furness-Lane, Introduction to Structuralism, ed. Michael Lane, 1970).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie structurale (1958, Structural Anthropology, trans. Clair Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, 1963).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, "La Geste d’Asdiwal" (1962, "The Story of Asdiwal," trans. N. Mann, rev. Monique Layton, Structural Anthropology, vol. 2, 1976).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mythologiques I: Le Cru et la cuit (1964, The Raw and the Cooked, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, 1975).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth" (1955, Structural Anthropology).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, "La Structure et la forme: Réflexions sur un ouvrage de Vladimir Propp" (1960, "Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp," 1960, trans. Monique Layton, rev. Anatoly Liberman, Theory and History of Folklore, by Vladimir Propp, 1984).

Richard Macksey and Eugenio Donato, eds., The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man (1970).

Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale (1916, Course in General Linguistics, trans. Wade Baskin, 1959, trans. Roy Harris, 1983).

Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique (1970, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. Richard Howard, 1973).

Tzvetan Todorov, Poétique de la prose (1971, The Poetics of Prose, trans. Richard Howard, 1977).