STRUCTURALISM IN REVERSE

Rosen talks about structuralism. It is a sign of the power (or perhaps the perversity) of structuralist thought that it sought the death of the author at precisely the point where the author would seem to be most alive--the work of serious literature. For in a modern culture there are many works in...

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Published inEtc. Vol. 74; no. 3/4; pp. 418 - 425
Main Author Rosen, Jay
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Concord Institute of General Semantics 01.07.2017
Institute of General Semantics, Inc
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Adolescents
Analysis
Audiences
Authors
Authorship
Communication
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Imagery
Language
Literature
Manufacturing
Mass Media
Novels
Paraprofessional Personnel
Popular culture
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Resistance (Psychology)
Semiotics
Social Structure
Speech
Structuralism
Subcultures
United States
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Summary:Rosen talks about structuralism. It is a sign of the power (or perhaps the perversity) of structuralist thought that it sought the death of the author at precisely the point where the author would seem to be most alive--the work of serious literature. For in a modern culture there are many works in which the author--and the idea of authorship-- is quite definitely dead: romance novels, for instance. In short, the most disturbing claims of structuralist thought have become facts of life where the work in question is the product of an industry rather than an artist. It would seem, then, that structuralism might demonstrate its true power not by reducing the mind of the author to a network of relationships but by focusing on the reductions already achieved in a mass culture, where pure form means a steady profit and thus becomes everyone's aim.
ISSN:0014-164X
2168-9245