Another structuralist was Roland Barthes, who claimed the term for a while, who was a literary critic and wrote about the ‘Death of the Author’. He argued the author could not claim to know what ...

Introductory examination of significant trends and movements in literary theory including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic approaches, theories of ...

Since then, post-structuralism has lost much of its allure, while literary theory has fragmented even further into a mishmash of diverse rhetorical modes and ideological discourses. For readers ...