The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946 (University - download pdf or read online

By Peter Steiner

ISBN-10: 0292741863

ISBN-13: 9780292741867

ISBN-10: 0292780435

ISBN-13: 9780292780439

The Prague Linguistic Circle got here into being at the afternoon of October 6, 1926, whilst 5 Czech and Russian linguists accumulated to listen to a lecture through a German colleague. From this foreign starting, the pursuits of the crowd grew to first surround language in all its practical heterogeneity after which eventually all of tradition, which the Circle conceived of as a constitution of signal platforms. Semiotics was once hence the overarching self-discipline for the Prague college, helping manage all phenomena shared and exchanged by way of a cultural community.

In fresh years expanding realization has been paid to the significance of the Prague university, yet writing approximately it has usually been marred via misconceptions. The imperative objective of this quantity is to right these misconceptions and to give the range of pursuits in the Prague School—literary feedback, linguistics, thought of theater, folklore, and philosophy. those essays via Bogatyrëv, Jakobson, Karcevskij, Mukařovský, Rieger, Vodička, and Honzl are the following translated into English for the 1st time. a few have a distinct old worth in illuminating serious phases of structuralist considering; others exhibit the timeliness of the School's contributions for the theoretical conflicts of our day. each one essay is followed by way of an informative introductory word, and the entire is by way of the editor's "Postscript," tracing the roots of structuralist aesthetics.

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