Saussure and Derrida on language, difference, and meaning, from structural linguistics to deconstruction, iterability, and the metaphysics of presence.
Roman Jakobson’s linguistic model explains how communication functions, poetic form, selection, combination, sound, rhythm, and textual organization participate directly in the production of meaning.
Roland Barthes developed influential approaches to myth, textuality, authorship, readerly and writerly texts, visual meaning, and the subjective experience of photography.
Norman Bryson connects psychoanalysis, discourse theory, visual rhetoric, ideology, and regimes of the gaze within a critical reconstruction of art-historical method.
