Este artículo proporciona una visión estructuralista de los conceptos básicos de la narratología literaria, partiendo de los términos necesarios para una definición del concepto mismo de narración. Se propone una representación gráfica de los diferentes niveles de inserción comunicativa en una narración literaria…[Read more]

This paper defines the concepts of literary theory and literary criticism as dialectically related activities, and puts forward a semiotic classification of literary theories. To conclude a preliminary approach to literary theory, it sketches out the origins of literary theorizing and critical practice in pre-philosophical thought and in the Greek…[Read more]

An exercise for a course on deconstructive criticism, with Jacques deconstructing himself and acknowledging that he partakes of Jean-Jacques’s logocentrism.

Given on 6/3/2016 at Birkbeck English and Humanities’ Work In Progress conference

Given on 23/11/2016 at Historical Materialism conference 2016

This is a brief note criticising some anti-foundationalist and anti-essentialist semiotic assumptions in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, from the standpoint of a classical structuralist perspective which (following Saussure) sees the play of differences as crucially constitutive of a system of positive terms.

A defense, in Spanish, of the doctoral thesis by José Angel García Landa on the narratology of Beckett’s trilogy ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone Dies’, ‘The Unnamable’ (University of Zaragoza, 1988).

Defensa de la tesis doctoral presentada por José Angel García Landa (Universidad de Zaragoza, Área de Filología Inglesa)

Annotations on V. N. Voloshinov’s study “Marxism and the Philosophy of Language” (1929), on topics such as reflexion vs. refraction, consciousness and signs, language and ideology, Saussurean structuralism, verbal interaction, and theme vs. meaning.