Combines an acute survey of structuralist literary criticism with an argument about how English and American criticism might benefit from its lessons.
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'The brilliance, precision and clarity with which Dr Culler conducts his argument make this a book which all those concerned with the analysis of literature should read.' - A.S. Byatt, Times Education Supplement
Surveys the emergence, established achievements, and prospective applications of a poetics which, based on a structuralist approach, attempts to define conditions of literary meaning and elucidate the semiotic conventions of literary form.
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