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Lit student here, just come out of a “Reading and Writing the Everyday” lecture about Roland Barthes and the French structuralists and whatnot, and I’m totally lost. Is it as vague and lacking in any real meaning as it seems?

>> No.11876938

>>11876879
Perhaps check out Frederick De Saussure to get like the baseline of the whole premise. Check out Levi Strauss too.

>> No.11876952

>>11876938
this
it's ferdinand tho

>> No.11877603

Barthes isn't your typical structuralist. He takes a bit of a turn later in his career.

I would say read or reread "Death of the Author" for some of his most straight forward stuff. Also check out Levi-Strauss's "The Structural Study of Myth. Levi-Strauss's structuralist approach to the myth of Oedipus is one of the clearest examples of what these people do out there.

Also looking into semiotics and have a sense of the difference between synchronic time and diachronic time