Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
A) Structuralist Poetics
B) Course in General Linguistics
C) The Pursuit of Signs
D) The Pleasure of the Text
E) The Implied Reader
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct option is B, D, E, A, C.

To determine the correct chronological order, we can look at the original publication years (or widely cited English translation years) of these seminal works in linguistics and literary theory:

B) Course in General Linguistics (originally Cours de linguistique générale) by Ferdinand de Saussure: Published posthumously in 1916. It laid the foundation for modern linguistics and structuralism.

D) The Pleasure of the Text (originally Le Plaisir du texte) by Roland Barthes: Published in 1973. This post-structuralist work explores the relationship between readers, writers, and textual pleasure.

E) The Implied Reader (originally Der implizite Leser) by Wolfgang Iser: The English translation was published in 1974 (German original in 1972). This is a foundational text in reader-response theory.

A) Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler: Published in 1975. It is a major critical work that introduces structuralist methods to literary analysis.

C) The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler: Published in 1981. This work builds upon his previous ideas, expanding into semiotics and deconstruction.

Arranging these works by their publication years gives:
1916 (B) ⇒ 1973 (D) ⇒ 1974 (E) ⇒ 1975 (A) ⇒ 1981 (C).
Therefore, the correct chronological order is B, D, E, A, C.