The Prison House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

Professor Fredric Jameson
Princeton University Press
9780691013169
0-691-01316-0

Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship.

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