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The Prague School - Selected Writings, 1929-1946 (Paperback)
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The Prague School - Selected Writings, 1929-1946 (Paperback)
Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series
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The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of
October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to
hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international
beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass
language in all its functional heterogeneity and then finally all
of culture, which the Circle conceived of as a structure of sign
systems. Semiotics was thus the overarching discipline for the
Prague School, serving to organize all phenomena shared and
exchanged by a cultural community. In recent years increasing
attention has been paid to the importance of the Prague School, but
writing about it has frequently been marred by misconceptions. The
central aim of this volume is to correct those misconceptions and
to present the diversity of interests within the Prague
School-literary criticism, linguistics, theory of theater,
folklore, and philosophy. These essays by Bogatyrev, Jakobson,
Karcevskij, Mukarovsky, Rieger, Vodicka, and Honzl are here
translated into English for the first time. Some have a special
historical value in illuminating critical stages of structuralist
thinking; others reveal the timeliness of the School's
contributions for the theoretical conflicts of our day. Each essay
is accompanied by an informative introductory note, and the whole
is followed by the editor's "Postscript," tracing the roots of
structuralist aesthetics.
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