Research On Changing Direction Of Jonathan Culler

Changing direction is an important academic characteristic of American literature theorist Jonathan Culler. In this paper, the main research object is the ideas of structuralism and deconstruction of Culler, by the academic changing direction as the entrance, carding to the academic ideas of Culler deathly, and revealing the development of academic thought of Culler, which helps to expand and further expansion of the academic research.The first chapter introduces Culler’s academic thoughts before the changing direction, as the theoretical foundation for the arrival of the changing direction. The first section makes out between the traditional structuralism linguistics and Chomsky’s linguistics, showing the process how Culler to changing the traditional structuralism linguistics theory; The second section understands Culler’s structuralism thoughts again from "program", in the face of the errors of the understanding for structure poetics; Finally, because some theorists have misunderstandings between structure poetics and new criticism, the paper compares the similarities and differences about structure poetics and new criticism.The second chapter shows the causes and process of the changing direction, the academic thought changes of Culler as the research object. The first section analyzes the attitude of Culler about deconstruction and the process how Culler to introduce the new method of deconstruction to the original academic thought. Culler concluded the point which is "deconstruction of structuralism is effectively complement"; The second section hackles the developing process of deconstruction and finds that Culler corrected an error the concept of readers in structure poetics and set up a new and more complete readers idea; At last, the paper analyze binary opposition of the profound criticism of Culler and funded out that Culler had set up "negate logos center socialist "philosophy.The third chapter introduces the academic ideas of Culler after the changing direction. The first section shows Culler didn’t totally accept Derrida’s deconstruction thought, but he constructed his own for the understanding of Derrida with the beneficial content; The second section shows that Culler set up his own deconstruction literature theory relying on the criticism to other theorists, facing Derrida didn’t set up the his deconstruction literary criticism. Finally, this paper briefly depicts the relationship between "after-theory" and Culler, analyzes the connotations of "return to literariness", setting up a foundation for possible "after-theory" study.