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Download full textBush, Harold K., Jr. – 1995
This digest provides a historical review of some current literary theories and practices which developed from contemporary philosophy. Structuralism, associated with Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss, with a seemingly scientific view of language and culture posited a systemic "center" that organized and sustained an entire…
Descriptors: College English, Cultural Context, English Curriculum, Higher Education
