Structuralism and Lévi-Strauss

Charbonnier, Georges, “Converasations with Lévi-Strauss”, Jonathan Cape, London 1968.

Culler, Jonathan, “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism”, London, 1983.

Jefferson, Ann and David Robey (eds), “Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction”, London,1982,

Harland, Richard “Superstructuralism: The Philosohy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism”, (London 1987)

* Sturrock, John “Structuralism” (London, 1986)

Leach, Edmund, “Lévi-Strauss: Modern Masters”, Fontana/Collins, Glasgow, 1970, 1974, 1985.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté “(1949); “The Elementary Structures of Kinship“, (translated by J. H. Bell, J. R. von Sturmer, and R. Needham), 1969.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “The Scope of Anthropology”, London, Cape 1967.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Tristes Tropiques”, (1955); transl.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Anthropologie structurale” (1958); “Structural Anthropology” (translated by C. Jacobson and B. G. Schoepf), 1963.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Mythologies”, 1962. 

Lévi-Strauss, “Le Totemisme aujourdhui”, “Totemism Today”, translated by R. Needham. 1963.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “La Pensée sauvage” (1962), “The Savage Mind”, Harmondsworth, 1966.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Mythologies I-IV” (1964–1971), translated by J. Weightman and D. Weightman.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1964. Le Cru et le cuit (The Raw and the Cooked), (1969).

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1966. “Du miel aux cendres” (1966), “From Honey to Ashes”, 1973.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “L’Origine des manières de table” (1968) / “The Origin of Table Manners”, 1978

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “L’Homme nu” (1971) / “The Naked Man”, (1981)

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Anthropologie structurale deux” (1973); “Structural Anthropology,” Vol. II, translated by M. Layton, 1976

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “La Voie des masques” (1972), “The Way of the Masks”, translated by S. Modelski, 1982.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude , “Myth and Meaning”, First published 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul, U.K, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Le Regard éloigné” (1983), “The View from Afar”, translated by J. Neugroschel and P. Hoss. 1985.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Paroles donné” (1984), “Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951–1982”, translated by R. Willis, 1987.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “La Potière jalouse” (1985), ” The Jealous Potter,” translated by B. Chorier. 1988.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Histoire de Lynx” (1991), “The Story of Lynx”, translated by C. Tihanyi. 1996.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Regarder, écouter, lire” (1993); “Look, Listen, Read”, translated by B. Singer, 1997.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Saudades do Brasil” (1994), Paris: Plon.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Le Père Noël supplicié” (1994). Pin-Balma: Sables Éditions.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “L’Anthropologie face aux problèmes du monde moderne”. (2011), Paris: Seuil.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “L’Autre face de la lune”, (2011) Paris: Seuil.

For Semiotics, generally, see:

Eco, Umberto, “A Theory of Semiotics” (Bloomington and London 1975)

The classical texts on Semiotics are to be found in:

Peirce, C.S., “Collected Papers, Vol 2” (ed Charles Hartshorne and Peter Weiss) (Harvard, 1978)

Morris, Charles, “Writings on the General Theory of Signs” (The Hague, 1971)

Roland Barthes

On Racine, (New York, 1964)

Elements of Semiology (London 1967, NY 1968)

Writing Degree Zero (London 1967, New York 1968)

Critical Essays (Evanston, New Jersey, 1972)

* Mythologies (Partial translation) (London 1972, NY 1973)

* The Pleasure of the Text, New York 1975, London 1976)

Sade/Fourier/Loyola, (New York 1975, London 1977)

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, (New York and London, 1977)

* Image, Music Text, (London 1977)

S/Z (New York and London, 1975)

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, (New York 1978, London 1979)

New Critical Essays (New York, 1980)

* A Barthes Reader (ed Susan Sontag) (New York and London, 1982)

The Empire of Signs (New York, 1982)

* Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography(New York and London, 1982)

Books about Barthes:

* Culler, Jonathan, “Barthes”, (London, 1983)

Culler, Jonathan, “Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature” (London & Ithaca, 1975)

Julia Kristeva

“The Revolution in Poetic language”, (1974) translated :New York, Columbia University Press, 1984.

“About Chinese Women” (1974), London, Marion Boyars, 1977.

“Language: The Unknown”, (translated by Anne Menke), London, Harvester, 1989.

“Desire in Language: a Semiotic approach to literature and art”, Oxford, Blackwell & New York, Columbia, 1980.

“Psychoanalysis and the polis” in W.J.T. Mitchell (ed.), “The Politics of Interpretation”, Chicago University Press, pp 83-98, 1983.

“Julia Kristeva in conversation with Rosalind Coward” in, Lisa Appignanesi (ed.), “Desire”. ICA Documents, pp 22-7, 1984.

Moi, Toril, “The Kristeva Reader”, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.

Michel Foucault

The main works by Foucault translated into English are:

“The Order of Things”, 1976
“The Archaeology of Knowledge”, London, 1972.
“The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaelology of Medical Perception”, 1973.
“Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, New York, 1973.
“Discipline and Punish”, London 1977.
“Language Counter-Memory, Practice”, (ed.) Donald Bouchard, Oxford, 1977.
“The History of Sexuality, Vol 1, An Introduction”, NY, 1980.
“Power/Knowledge”, (ed.) Colin Gordon, Brighton, 1980.

On Foucault

Mark Poster, “Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of Production versus Mode of Information”, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1984.
Cousins, Mark and Hussain Athar, “Michel Foucault”, London, 1984.
Culler, Jonathan, “Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature”, London, 1973.
Vincent Descombes, “Modern French Philosophy”, Cambridge, 1980.
Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Rainbow, Paul, “Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics”, Brighton, 1982.
Lemert, Chales C., and Gillan, Garth, “Michel Foucault : Social Theory as Transgression”, NY, 1982.
Sheridan, Alan, “Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth”, London, 1980.
Smart, Barry, “Foucault, Marxism, and Critique”, London, 1983.
Sturrock, John, (ed.), “Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida”, Oxford, 1979.
Wilden, Anthony, “System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange”, London, 1972.