Eagleton, ''Structuralism and Semiotics''

"Literature is not a way of knowing reality but kind of collective utopian dreaming which has gone on throughout history, an expression of those fundamental human desires which have given rise to civilization itself, but which are never fully satisfied there" (80).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/a_contradiction.html

"The ideal reader or 'super-reader' posited by structuralism was in effect a transcendental subject absolved from all limiting social determinates. But not even Levi-Strauss was able to read texts as would the Almighty himself."

“Some Literary forms-realist prose, for example - tend to be metonymic, linking signs by their associations with each other; other forms, such as Romantic and Symbolist poetry, are hilly metaphorical” (Eagleton 87).

"What semiotics represents, in fact, is literary criticism transfigured by structural linguistics, rendered a more disciplined and less impressionistic enterprise which, as Lotman's work testifies, is more rather than less alive to the wealth of form and language than most traditional criticism" (Eagleton 90). Click here!

I Think I Found a Muddy Point-Can Anyone Explain
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/i_think_i_found_a_muddy_point.html

"What is notable about this kind of analysis is that, like Formalismm it brackets off the actual content of the story and concentrates entirely on the form" (Eagleton 95).

little bit of venting...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/replacements.html

Ideal Reader

“For the structuralists, the ‘ideal reader’ of a work was someone who would have at his or her disposal all the codes which would render it exhaustively intelligible” (Eagleton 105)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/ideal-reader.html

Father=Mother=Bird?
“What is notable about this kind of analysis is that, like Formalism, it brackets off the actual content of the story and concentrates entirely on the form. You could replace father and son, pit and sun, with entirely different elements—mother and daughter, bird and mole—and still have the same story. As long as the structure of relations between the units is preserved it does not matter which items you select” (Eagleton 83).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/fathermotherbird.html

"To be able to transmit a message at all, he or she must already be caught up in and constituted by language. In the beginning was the Word" (Eagleton 98).

"Some structuralist arguments would appear to assume that the critic identifies the 'appropriate' codes for deciphering the text and then applies them, so that the codes of text and the codes of the reader gradually converge into a unitary knowledge."

You can't touch me. I'm in my bubble.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/02/reality_cant_touch_me_im_in_my.html

Clash and Condensation
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/structuralism_a.html

Clash and Condensation
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/structuralism_a.html

bueno para mi la literatura no es mas que dar a conocer lo que nosotros mismos somos... con esto quiero dar a conocer que todos podemos hacer literatura con tan solo vivir la vida y plasmandola en un papel^^ bueno eso es lo que yo pienso ...