Semiotics and structuralism
Subtitle: readings from the Soviet Union
By: edited with an introduction by Henryk Baran ; [translated by William Mandel, Henryk Baran, and A. J. Hollander].
Contributors: Baran, Henryk.
Publisher: International Arts and Sciences Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: White Plains, N.Y
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Semiotics; Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lotman, I. M. and Uspenskii, B. A. Myth-name-culture.; title: Lotman, I. M. Theater and theatricality in the order of early nineteenth century culture.; title: Uspenskii, B. A. Historia sub specie semioticae.; title: Toporov, V. N. Toward the problem of genres in folklore.; title: Meletinskii, E. M. Primitive sources of verbal art.; title: Meletenskii, E. M. A structural-typological analysis of Paleo-Asiatic mythology.; title: Toporov, V. N. Toward the origin of certain poetic symbols: the Paleolithic Period.; title: Ivanov, V. V. Restoration of the original text of the Ket myth about the destroyer of eagles' nests.; title: Revzina, O. G. and Revzin, I. I. Toward formal analysis of plot construction.; title: Lotman, I. M. O. M. Freidenberg as a student of culture.; title: Freidenberg, O. M. The origin of parody.; title: Bakhtin, M. M. The art of the word and the culture of folk humor (Rabelais and Gogol').; title: Lotman, I. M. Gogol' and the correlation of "The culture of humor" with the comic and serious in the Russian national tradition.; title: Lotman, I. M. On the reduction and unfolding of sign systems (The problem of "Freudianism and semiotic culturology").; title: Ivanov, V. V. The significance of M. M. Bakhtin's ideas of sign, utterance, and dialogue for modern semiotics.