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44
Citations
15426
World Ranking
4002
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1905

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jonathan Culler is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Arts and Humanities, with a notable emphasis on Literature and Literary Theory.

The key subfields of study in Culler's work include:

  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • History
  • Language and Linguistics

Culler's research covers several main topics, which are:

  • Visual Culture and Art Theory
  • French Literature and Poetry
  • Philosophy, History, and Historiography
  • Comics and Graphic Narratives
  • Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
  • Medieval European Literature and History
  • Historical and Literary Analyses

Jonathan Culler has authored a number of papers, including:

  • The Indispensability of Truth, 2023, Central European Cultures
  • Poetics, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
  • Memorizing poetry, 2023, English Journal of the English Association
  • Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes' Forgotten Interview, 2022, Theory Culture & Society

They have also coauthored work with several researchers, including:

  • Adele Bardazzi
  • Roberto Binetti
  • Tei Anžur
  • Martini Ožbot
  • Vanesi Matajc

Frequent publication venues for Culler's research include:

  • Central European Cultures
  • Journal of World Literature
  • English Journal of the English Association
  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

Culler has published books with Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts), including Od Antigone do Zolaja: zbrani spisi (2021).

Recognition of Culler's academic contributions includes election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Narrative discourse : an essay in method

    Gérard Genette;Jane E. Lewin;Jonathan D. Culler

  • On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • The Pursuit Of Signs - Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Interpretation and overinterpretation

    Umberto Eco;Jonathan Culler;Richard Rorty;Christine Brooke-Rose

  • SEMIOTICS OF TOURISM

    Jonathan Culler

  • The Pursuit of Signs

    Jonathan Culler

  • Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Theory of the Lyric

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Ferdinand de Saussure

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Structuralist Poetics

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  • The Literary in Theory

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

    Gregory L. Ulmer;Jonathan Culler

  • Philosophy and Literature: The Fortunes of the Performative

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • On Puns: The Foundation of Letters

    Jonathan D. Culler

  • Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature

    Michel Grimaud;Jonathan Culler

  • Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

    Pheng Cheah;Jonathan D. Culler

  • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

    Mas'd Zavarzadeh;Jonathan Culler

  • On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism@@@Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction@@@The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America

    Jonathan Culler;Vincent B. Leitch;Jonathan Arac

  • Communicative competence and normative force

    Jonathan D. Culler;Satya P. Mohanty

  • Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions.

    Julia Saville;Jonathan Culler

  • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

    Christopher Norris;Jonathan Culler

  • Semiology@@@Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature

    Paul Chilton;Pierre Guiraud;George Gross;Jonathan Culler

Frequent Co-Authors

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco University of Bologna
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva Université Paris Cité
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson Duke University
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago

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