Arrange the works in chronological sequence:
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 arrange these influential works of literary theory and linguistics in their chronological order of publication, we can examine their publication years:
• B) Course in General Linguistics: Written by Ferdinand de Saussure, this foundational text in structural linguistics was published posthumously in 1916.
• D) The Pleasure of the Text: Written by the French theorist Roland Barthes, this work was first published in French as Le Plaisir du texte in 1973.
• E) The Implied Reader: Written by reader-response theorist Wolfgang Iser, this book was published in its English translation in 1974 (following its original German publication in 1972).
• A) Structuralist Poetics: Written by Jonathan Culler, this major study introducing structuralist literary theory to the English-speaking world was published in 1975.
• C) The Pursuit of Signs: Also written by Jonathan Culler, this follow-up work on semiotics and literature was published in 1981.

Following this timeline, the correct chronological sequence is:
Course in General Linguistics (1916) ⇒ The Pleasure of the Text (1973) ⇒ The Implied Reader (1974) ⇒ Structuralist Poetics (1975) ⇒ The Pursuit of Signs (1981).
This corresponds to the sequence: B, D, E, A, C.