• Next readings

       Readings from Structuralism:

• Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (1915)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• "The Structural Study of Myth" (1951)
• The Savage Mind (1962) -- Part I, Chapters 1-2 (pp. 65-78), and Part II, Chapters 4-5 (pp. 111-127)
• "The Science of the Concrete" (chap. 1 of The Savage Mind, in a different online version)
• "The Logic of Totemic Classification" (chap. 2 of The Savage Mind)
• Diagram of "the totemic operator" (from chap. 5, "Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers" of The Savage Mind, p. 152)

      (continued from last class)

• Signs (signifiers -- signifieds) 

• Differentiation

• Homology

• Total Structure  

• Selected Works:
• Mythologies (1957) 
  
• Elements of Semiology (1964)
• Writing Degree Zero (1967)
• The Fashion System (1967)
• S/Z: An Essay (1970)
• The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981)

How Claude Lévi-Strauss might see "Sarrasine":

Barthe's difference from Lévi-Strauss: S/Z (p. 20) (pp. 5-6) (pp. 11-12)

(compare Lévi-Strauss, "Structural Study of Myth," (p. 440: diagram) ("p. 443)

• Other works for discussion
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets
• Charles Bernstein, "You" (1983)
• Bob Perelman
• Ron Silliman
• Susan Howe, Bruce Andrews
• Lyn Hejinian
• Barrett Watten
• etc.