Structuralisms
- Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling," pp. 15-25, and "Myth Today," pp. 109-159, from Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers, New York: Hill and Wang, 1972 [1952]
- Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation),” from “Lenin and Philosophy” and Other Essays Monthly Review Press 1971; First published: in La Pensée, 1970; Translated: from the French by Ben Brewster. [An online version is here.]
- Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?", translation Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon, In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977. pp.124-127.
- Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text” and “Change the Object Itself,” from Image, Music, Text, (trans. Stephen Heath), 1978.
Possible books for review: Eco, A Theory of Semiotics; Derrida, Of Grammatology; Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy; Foucault, Discipline and Punish or History of Sexuality (Vol 1); Barthes S/Z.
