Ferdinand de Saussure

In much of her criticism, Anna Livia examines the ways in which lesbian identities, relationships, and experiences are constructed in English and French language, literature, and culture. She is also fascinated by the overlap and...

This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan of Michael Joseph —who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it. Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...

According to Linden Peach , intertextuality is a prominent feature of this novel, which is a rewriting of the Oedipus story most famously handled by Sophocles . Like Oedipus, Desiderio is instructed by his father...

Four years after its publication, a reviewer for Contemporary Sociology called this book the best available introduction in the English language to the semiotic structuralism of Saussure , Lévi-Strauss , and Lacan ; the structural...