Structuralist Poetics

Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJonathan Culler
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLiterary theory
PublisherRoutledge & Kegan Paul
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint

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, it won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 1976 for an outstanding book of criticism. 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.