Ever wondered why certain stories, movies, or songs resonate — and others don’t? Structuralism and semiotics suggest it’s not random. In this video, we dive into the theories of Saussure, Lévi‑Strauss ...

Explore the fascinating world of literary theory in our latest video! Dive deep into topics like postcolonial analysis, feminist criticism, and structuralism. Discover the nuances of deconstruction ...

In 1967, French literary and cultural critic Roland Barthes published a short essay that would have far-reaching influence. Titled “The Death of the Author”, the essay argued that, for the purposes of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The vice-president of the United States, JD Vance, says that a 2011 talk at Yale Law School changed his life. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A book that uses literary post-structuralism as its main theme while playfully subverting the limitations of ...

Russian Linguistics is an international forum for all scholars working in the field of Russian linguistics and its manifold diversity, ranging from phonetics and phonology to syntax and the linguistic ...

“Poetics of Rhythm” – that is the title of a project currently in the starting blocks at Goethe University Frankfurt. The aim of Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke, Professor for Literary Theory and ...

Does literature merely reflect the world or actually shape the future? British writer Peter Boxall from Cambridge University answered this question during his lecture, “The Possibility of Literature,” ...

In Le roman maghrébin (1979), Abdelkébir Khatibi claims that writing fiction is deploying “un ensemble d’attitudes” vis-à-vis both the extra-textual reality and the writing itself. Every literary work ...