Jonathan Culler
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Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is an important figure of the structuralism movement.
[edit] Background
Culler attended Harvard for his undergraduate studies, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature in 1966. After receiving a Rhodes scholarship, he attended St. John's College,Oxford University where he earned a B. Phil in comparative literature (1968) and a Ph.D. in modern languages (1972). His thesis for the B. Phil. recorded Culler's first experiences with structuralism. The thesis explored the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty using the ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, and Ferdinand de Saussure. By the mid-1970s, Jonathan Culler became the voice of structuralism in America and took structuralism to another level. Currently, he is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Culler is married to respected deconstructionist critic Cynthia Chase, half-sister to comedian and actor Chevy Chase.
[edit] Bibliography
- Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty
- Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- The Pursuit of Signs
- On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
- Roland Barthes
- The Call of the Phoneme: Puns and the Foundations of Letters
- Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Instituitions
- Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
- Barthes: A Very Short Introduction
- Apostrophe
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