Behinds Quote by George Pattison

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at…

— Terry Eagleton

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

— Heather Mac Donald

“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem…

— E. Smith Sleigh

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

“The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in the 1960s…

— Geoffrey Harvey

“The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as ‘natural’ but…

— Terry Eagleton

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

— Robert Gilpin

“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

“Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to "Moby Dick" or "The Cat in the Hat".”

— Terry Eagleton

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a…

— William T. Vollmann