Structuralism: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Structuralism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a structural reading of which famous story?
King Lear
Oedipus Rex
The Iliad
Paradise Lost
Q. A couple of Saussure's students compiled his lecture notes on language into a book that would be called what?
Course in General Linguistics
Langue and Parole
Class in Specific Linguistics
Death of the Author
Q. Which Italian book did Tzvetan Todorov analyze from a structural perspective?
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Dante's Inferno
The Decameron
The Merchant of Venice
Q. In which book did Claude Lévi-Strauss analyze common components in myths?
The Raw and the Cooked
Myth and Meaning
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Tristes Tropiques
Q. Which text was important in introducing structuralism to English speakers?
"An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative"
Mythologies
Structural Anthropology
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature