Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
AIDS-related death, Sociologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric theorist, structuralist
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Victim of Soviet repressions, Aesthetics, Scholar, structuralist, Philologist, aesthetic
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp

male, deceased (1970)
folk tale, Philologist, Russian, structuralist, morphology, From Saint Petersburg
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian structuralist scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their...
Barbara Johnson

Barbara Johnson

female, 62 years old
Harvard University, poststructuralist, Yale school, Oberlin College alumni, American, structuralist
Barbara Johnson is an American literary critic and translator. She is currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic...

Gérard Genette

male, 79 years old
paratext, Narrative Discourse, Narrative Discourse An Essay in Method, BRICOLAGE, figure, Literary theory…structuralist
Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and C...
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

male, 87 years old
novelist, banana, finistere, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, Brest, France, Académie Française…structuralist
Alain Robbe-Grillet (born August 18 1922) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and s...

René Wellek

male, deceased (1995)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, From Prague, German, comparative, czech…structuralist
René Wellek was a Czech-German comparative literary critic. Wellek, along with Erich Auerbach, is remembered as an eminent product of the Central E...
Michael Riffaterre

Michael Riffaterre

male, deceased (2006)
Johns Hopkins University, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oxford University, City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, World War II…structuralist
Michael or Michel Riffaterre was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well...
Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant

male, deceased (2007)
structuralist, Anthropologist, myth, tragedy, structuralism, historian
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a...
Yuri Lotman

Yuri Lotman

male, deceased (1993)
semiotics, culturology, From Tartu, structuralist, Jewish, Russian
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (also Juri, Jüri, Jurij - a prominent Russian formalist critic, semiotician, culturologist. He was the founder of s...