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Chapter 6 Structuralism and post-structuralism
Sarup, Madan, An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism, 2nd edn,
Harlow: Prentice Hall, 1993. An excellent introduction to post-structuralism.
Sheridan, Alan, Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth, London: Tavistock, 1980. Still the
most readable introduction to Foucault.
Silverman, Kaja, The Subject of Semiotics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. An
interesting and accessible account of structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism
and post-structuralism. Especially useful on Barthes.
Sturrock, John (ed.), Structuralism and Since: From Lévi-Strauss to Derrida, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1979. Contains good introductory essays on Lévi-Strauss,
Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida.
Twaites, Tony, Lloyd Davis and Mules Warwick, Tools for Cultural Studies: An
Introduction, Melbourne: Macmillan, 1994. Presents an informed account of the
place of semiotics in the field of cultural studies.
Weedon, Chris, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory, Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1987. An interesting introduction to post-structuralism from a feminist perspective.
Helpful chapter on Foucault.