Abstract: Summary This paper deals primarily with the accounts of structuralism postulated by Deleuze in the article ‘How Does One Recognise Structuralism?’ (1975) and by Barthes in the article ‘The Structuralist Activity’ (1972). An analysis of these articles shows that structuralism functions as a critique, aiming to reveal the conditions of possibility of any given structure. The term ‘structuralism’ when used in this sense is not limited to theoretical activities, but applies also to the literary text, when it aims to reveal its own conditions of possibility. An analysis of Barthes’ articles ‘Literature and Discontinuity’ and ‘The Metaphor of the Eye’ shows that the literary text spontaneously provides a structuralist‐critique of systems of signification.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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