Structuralism arose on the continent, in particular in France, in the early 60s. The first ‘big name’ was Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist, who took on Jean-Paul Sartre, the leading French ...

The realization of his project (how he makes Marx talk) involves two different types of structural analysis. The ensuing ‘duplicity’ will reveal the lines of fracture in his structuralism, which will ...

It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; dramaturgical analysis; (neo-) functionalism; constructivist structuralism; structuration theory; ...

(ibid). To some extent post-structuralism is mischievous and subversive; and one of its major weapons is the much vaunted ‘parody’; Linda Hutcheon writes: Parody appears to have become […] the mode of ...