CONTENTS


1. Russian Formalism: The Systemic Nature of Literariness

Mikhail Bakhtin and the Formalist Theories

2. The New Criticism, or Formalism with a Human Face

3. Structuralism, Semiotics, Narratology

The Semiotic Analysis of the Literary Text

Pre-Structuralist and Structuralist Narratology

Structuralist Poetics

4. Deconstruction, or the Withinness of Difference

Jacques Derrida - From “Plato’s Pharmacy”

American Deconstruction

5. Bibliography

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