Lecture, three hours. Introductory study of French structuralist and poststructuralist thought in literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy, and feminism, that may include texts by Althusser, Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Genette, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Lyotard, and others. S/U or letter grading.