Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. To Enter the Circle ix
4. Theses Presented to the First Congress of Slavic Philologists in Prague, 1929. The Prague Linguistic Circle 1
5. Folklore as a Special Form of Creativity 32
6. The Asymmetric Dualism of the Linguistic Sign 47
7. A Contribution to the Study of Theatrical Signs 55
8. Structuralism in Esthetics and in Literary Studies 65
9. The Semantic Analysis of Philosophical Texts 83
10. The Concretization of the Literary Work 103
11. Ritual and Theater 135
12. The Roots of Structuralist Esthetics 174