MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ASM4640

Structuralisms and poststructuralisms

Proposed to be offered next in 1998

Don Miller

Synopsis This subject examines the contribution that structuralism and poststructuralism have made and might make to our understanding of society and culture. Following an examination of the structuralisms of Levi-Strauss, Dumont, Leach and Althusser, the subject considers a range of poststructuralist critiques, focusing in particular on the work of Bourdieu and Spivak.

Assessment Two class exercises (1500 words each): 15% each + Essay (6000 words): 70%

Recommended texts

• Beilharz P (ed.) Social theory: A guide to central thinkers Allen and Unwin, 1991
• Bourdieu P The logic of practice Polity, 1992
• Culler J Saussure Fontana, 1976
• Grosz E Sexual subversions: Three French feminists Allen and Unwin, 1989
• Hawkes T Structuralism and semiotics Methuen, 1977
• Leach E R Levi-Strauss Fontana, 1970
• Leach E R Structuralist interpretations of Biblical myth CUP, 1983
• Levi-Strauss C The view from afar Penguin, 1987
• Levi-Strauss C Structural anthropology two vols, Penguin, 1977
• Norris C Deconstruction: Theory and practice Methuen, 1982
• Spivak G C In other worlds Methuen, 1987
• Sturrock J (ed.) Structuralism and since Opus, 1980
• Weedon C Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory Blackwell, 1987