The Online Books Page

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).

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Criticism

• Semiotics

• 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 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), by Margot Norris (page images at Wisconsin)

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

• 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)
• 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)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• 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)

• 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)
• Literature and Cognition, by Jerry R. Hobbs (PDF at Stanford)

• 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 discourses.org)
• 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 discourses.org; pp. 114-115 out of place)
• News as Discourse (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Literature and Cognition, by Jerry R. Hobbs (PDF at Stanford)

• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)

• An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Claudia Breger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Kenneth M. George (HTML at UC Press)

• Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Writing Selves, Writing Societies: Research From Activity Perspectives (2003), ed. by Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Rhetoric of Literate Action (v1 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Theory of Literate Action (v2 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum (fourth edition, c2006), by Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum (c2011), ed. by Richard E. Young (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Inside the Antisemitic Mind: The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2017), by Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Jehuda Reinharz (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF at oapen.org)

• 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 discourses.org)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)
• Logic and Representation, by Robert C. Moore (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
• Algebraic Semantics in Language and Philosophy, by Godehard Link (PDF at Stanford)
• Propositional Attitudes: The Role of Content in Logic, Language, and Mind, ed. by C. Anthony Anderson and Joseph Owens (PDF at Stanford)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.