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Background Materials: Formalist and Structuralist Ideas (notes on critical theory developed for instructional use) (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Roland Barthes
ArtsandCulture: 
Barthean Codes (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Barthes Notes (notes on terms and concepts in Camera Lucida) (Ron Burnett, McGill U.)
PopCultures.com: Roland Barthes (Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center)
Secondary Literature
Brad Menpes (U. Warwick), "Ideology and Responsibility: Derrida, Barthes, and a Question of Method" (Work in Progress, U. Warwick) English Dept.
Roman Jakobson
Jacobson's Model of a Communications Act (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Jakobson's Communication Model (John Lye, Brock U.)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth (lecture notes on the essay) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Ferdinand De Saussure
Saussure (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Saussure and the Sign (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
Saussurescape (Web-based exercise to illustrate the ideas of Ferdinand Saussure) (Warren Hedges, Southern Oregon U.)
Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to Literary Theory (John Lye, Brock U.)
Structuralism (SWIRL)
Structuralism/Deconstruction (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
Summary of Gerard Genette, "Structuralism and Literary Criticism" (John Lye, Brock U.)