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Author | Jonathan Culler |
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Language | English |
Subject | Literary theory |
Publisher | Routledge & Kegan Paul |
Publication date | 1975 |
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Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature is a 1975 book of critical literary theory by the critic Jonathan Culler. First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul,[1] it won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 1976 for an outstanding book of criticism.[2] It is hailed as the "most thorough and influential account" in the English-speaking world of the school of structuralism as a critical theory of literature.[3]