From time to time a current of thought sweeps through a culture and
moves its most disparate elements in the same direction. Such a
current is structuralism. Reacting against "modernist" alienation
and fragmentation, it is an integrative and holistic way of looking
at the world; it seeks reality not in individual things but in the
relationships among them. Its aim, says Robert Scholes, is nothing
less than the unification of all the sciences into a new system of
belief. The impact of structuralism on literature and literary
study is the concern of this extraordinarily lucid book. Mr.
Scholes explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its
historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and
the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist
literary critics. "In Scholes’s book we have beautifully lucid,
and at the same time intelligently critical, accounts of such areas
of controversy as Jakobson and Riffaterre on Baudelaire’s Les
Chats; Jolles’s Simple Forms and the drama speculations of
Souriau; Propp on the folktale . . . and other Russian
‘formalist’ critics; Lévi-Strauss on myth; Greimas, Bremond
and Todorov on narrative structure and Barthes and Genette on
analysis of the meaning-structure of a literary text. . . . Those
already persuaded of the importance of the field will see this book
as . . . perhaps the most valuable general work available." --
Times Higher Education Supplement
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