Further Reading

For structuralism, the best introduction is still Frederic Jameson’s The Prison House of Language (1972). For the development of post-structuralism and post-modernism, see Madan Sarup’s An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism (1993).

For original structuralist texts, see Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (1959, 1983), Barthes, Elements of Semiology (1967) and Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology (1968).

There are no easy post-structuralist or post-modernist texts, but the most accessible include Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1977) and the first volume of his History of Sexuality (1978a), also Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition (1984); if you are feeling brave try Baudrillard’s The Mirror of Production (1985) also Derrida’s On Grammatology (1973).