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Structuralism (Literary analysis)

Here are entered works on criticism formulated on the attempt to scientize and systematize literary judgments by concentrating on repeated structural factors, i.e., motifs (as opposed to content or moral judgments).

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• Friday's Footprint: Structuralism and the Articulated Text (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Wesley Morris (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Republic of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory (Earth: Punctum Books, c2016), by Eric Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), by Margot Norris (page images at Wisconsin)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1978), by Michael Riffaterre (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary Multilevel Modeling (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007), ed. by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, and Don Dedrick (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema: Film Semiology and Beyond (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Margrit Tröhler and Guido Kirsten (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (second edition revised; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1927), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, contrib. by Bronislaw Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, by Genevieve Vaughan (illustrated HTML at for-giving.com)

• Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)

• Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1981; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1982), ed. by Deborah Tannen (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)

• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)

• International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (c2012), ed. by Charles Bazerman, Christopher Dean, Jessica Singer Early, Karen J. Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)

• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Academic Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum (2000-2003) (full serial archives)

• Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (New York: Academic Press, 1983), by Teun A. van Dijk and Walter Kintsch (PDF at discourses.org)

• Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities (c1991), ed. by Charles Bazerman and James G. Paradis (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Ideology and Discourse: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (ca. 2007), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (London and New York: Longman, c1977), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• An Applied Linguistic Approach To Discourse Analysis (1973), by H. G. Widdowson (PDF files in the UK)
• News Analysis: Case Studies of International and National News in the Press (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• News as Discourse (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010), by Anita Naciscione (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Paromita Sanyal and Vijayendra Rao (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2020), by Matthew Clark and James Phelan (PDF and Epub at Ohio State)
• Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson
  • PDF with commentary at CMU
  • PDF with commentary at Figshare

• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality (New York: Routledge, c2024), by Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by M. B. Iampolskii, trans. by Harsha Ram (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Richard L. Regosin (HTML at UC Press)

• Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (London and New York: Longman, c1977), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)
• What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1903), by Victoria Welby
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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