Ferdinand
de Saussure

Jonathan Culler on the founder of structural linguistics, in the Penguin Modern Masters series edited by FRANK KERMODE. First published in Great Britain by Fontana in 1976; FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BY PENGUIN 1977 — this copy. ISBN 0 14 00.4369 1; set in Linotype Primer. Dedicated in memoriam to the poet and critic VERONICA FORREST-THOMSON, 1947–1975, Culler\u2019s wife, who died at twenty-seven. The book is the collection\u2019s entry point to SAUSSURE and to semiotics, and sits directly behind the structuralist thread running through Leech, Pathé Diagne and the Prah volume elsewhere on these shelves.