Look, Listen, Read (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Language or languages, Music or musicians, Literature, Criticism, Painting or painters, Reading, Pacific Northwest, Aesthetics, Senses or sensation
Claude Lévi-Strauss is primarily known as an anthropologist, one of the most influential figures in that field. He is closely associated with the structuralist school of literary theory. Structuralism, as Lévi-Strauss defines it here, is not limited to one discipline but is suited to any subject. In structuralism, the details of specific cases are simplified to reveal a scientific inner structure, such as the grammar which underlies the infinite expressions of language. Lévi-Strauss claims as a structuralist the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau because he developed a theory of...
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