Contents
Should Grammar Be Killed Off? 1
A Brief Sociology of the Contemporary French Novel 7
An Innovation in Criticism 21
New Problems of Realism 28
Works of Mass Culture and Explication de Texte 35
The Human Sciences and the Works of Levi-Strauss 40
Mass Culture, High Culture 45
Response to a Survey on Structuralism 52
A Dialectical Writing Practice 57
Interview on Structuralism 61
Linguistics and Literature 71
Ten Reasons to Write 85
A Problematic of Meaning 88
The Linguistics of Discourse 122
On Theory 133
A Very Fine Gift 147
Letter to Jean Ristat 152
For a Theory of Reading 156
Supplement 161
Writing 167
Responses 171
A Kind of Manual Labour 177
Foreword to 'Jakobson' 181
Relations between Fiction and Criticism according to Roger Laporte 185