Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler ( born 1944 ) is an American linguist, comparatist and literary theorist who, through his work internationally was attention to structuralism and post-structuralist deconstruction before all things.

Biography

Culler studied comparative literature at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. From 1969-1974 he taught Modern Languages ​​at the University of Cambridge. Thereafter he was appointed as a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and worked at French universities. In 1975 he held a visiting professorship at Yale University. In 1988 he was president of the Semiotic Society of America. He is currently the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Important publications

Cullers resulting in Oxford dissertation in 1975 under the title structuralist Poetics: Structuralism published, Linguistics and the Study of Literature. It is regarded as essential for the establishment of structuralism in the Anglophone literature and was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.

His publications on Jacques Derrida's method of deconstruction (especially On Deconstruction, 1982) contributed in their efforts to take Derrida's thinking systematically, to improving these to exempt from Ruch of Pseudophilosophentums he had possessed among American academics, at least partially. However, objections were shortened relative of deconstructive side or facts too harmonizing shown asserted.

A wider audience Culler was his literary theory: known A Brief Introduction ( 1997), thus stands out from the textbooks field that it is not organized in the main by schools and schools of thought, but divided into key topics.

Publications (selection )

  • Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature. Ithaca. Cornell University Press 1975 edition London: Routledge and Kegan Paul ( Routledge Classics ) 2002.
  • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1981.
  • On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1982; German deconstruction. Derrida and the post-structuralist literary theory. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1999, ISBN 978-3-499-55635-7.
  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997; German literary theory. A brief introduction. ( Reclam Universal-Bibliothek 18166 ) Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-018166-6.
  • The Literary in Theory: Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford: Stanford UP 2006, ISBN 978-0-8047-5374-6.
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