Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Die Sprache der Literaturwissenschaft gegenüber der Sprache der Literaturkritik 1
4. Narration and Description from the Standpoint of Functional Sentence Perspective 15
5. Bachtins Ästhetik des Wortes uns seine Dostoevskij-Interpretation 45
6. In Between a Play and a Story 63
7. Tales from One Pocket 95
8. The Conceptual System of Prague School Poetics: Mukařovský and Vodička 109
9. Vodička's The Beginnings of Modern Czech Prose (Počátky Krásné Prózy Novočeské) in the Light of the Theory of Fiction 127
10. The Effectiveness of the Aesthetic Function 137
11. Is Reception History a Literary Theory? 161
12. The Role of Personality in Literary Development 187
13. Spenser's Arcadia 211
14. Die Inhaltsfunktion der künstlerischen Form als offenes Problem 243
15. Norwid and Baudelaire as Contemporaries 285
16. Potebnja's Concept of Image 297
17. The Aesthetic Function and Medieval Russian Culture 321
18. Literary History in a Semiotic Framework 341
19. On Kuralt's Slovene and German Translations of Boguslavski's Song, “Świat Srogi, Świat Przewrotny” 371
20. Sound Texture 385
21. The Aesthetic in Mass Culture 397
22. Convention and Literary Behavior 431
23. Der Funktionsbegriff des Tschechischen Strukturalismus in der Theorie und in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Analyse am Beispiel von Havels Horský Hotel 455
24. Literary Evolution as a Communicative Process 483
25. The Semiotics of Literary Reception 503
26. A Cubist Historiography 521
27. From the Pre-history of Czech Structuralism 547
28. Four Analogues to Xlebnikov's “Language of the Gods” 581
29. Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Felix Vodička 599
30. Contributors 609