Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Semiotics, Dialectics and Critical Theory 3
5. I. Between Formalism and Marxism
6. V.N. Voloshinov: A Marriage of Formalism and Marxism 39
7. Text and Context 103
8. Michail Bachtins Konzeption als Alternative zum Sozialistischen Realismus 137
9. Ideology and Literary Production 179
10. II. Czech and Polish Contributions to the Debate
11. J. L. Fischer — The Founder of Dialectical Structurology in Czech Philosophy 223
12. Individuum-Struktur-anthropologische Konstante 243
13. Die Frage der Quasi-Urteile und das fiktive Bezugsfeld 283
14. III. Jurij Lotman's Semiotics of Culture and Literature
15. The Dialectics of Change 311
16. Die Literatur im Lichte der Semiotik 331
17. IV. Theory and Practice
18. Roman et société 363
19. On the Spatial and Cultural Characteristics of Courtly Romance 387
20. Can vei la lauzeta mover 445
21. Dialectics as Ideology and the Construction of Reality 469