Semiotics and Dialectics

1. Introduction; 2. Semiotics, Dialectics and Critical Theory (by Zima, Peter V.); 3. I. Between Formalism and Marxism; 4. V.N. Voloshinov: A Marriage of Formalism and Marxism (by Walton, William Garrett); 5. Text and Context: The Socio-linguistic Nexus (by Zima, Peter V.); 6. Michail Bachtins Konzeption als Alternative zum Sozialistischen Realismus (by Gunther, Hans-Christian); 7. Ideology and Literary Production: Kristeva's Poetics (by Adriaens, Mark); 8. II. Czech and Polish Contributions to the Debate; 9. J. L. Fischer - The Founder of Dialectical Structurology in Czech Philosophy (by Chvatik, Kvetoslav); 10. Individuum-Struktur-anthropologische Konstante: Randbemerkungen zur Beziehung zwischen dem Strukturalismus und der asthetisch-semiotischen Anthropologie (by Sus, Oleg); 11. Die Frage der Quasi-Urteile und das fiktive Bezugsfeld (by Ziomek, Jerzy); 12. III. Jurij Lotman's Semiotics of Culture and Literature; 13. The Dialectics of Change: Culture, Codes, and the Individual (by Shukman, Ann); 14. Die Literatur im Lichte der Semiotik: Randbemerkungen zu den Arbeiten J. Lotmans (by Markiewicz, Henryk); 15. IV. Theory and Practice; 16. Roman et societe: Discours et action dans la theorie lukacsienne du roman (by Leenhardt, Jacques); 17. On the Spatial and Cultural Characteristics of Courtly Romance (by Boklund, Karin); 18. Can vei la lauzeta mover: Uberlegungen zum Verhaltnis von phonischer Struktur und semantischer Struktur (by Kohler, Erich); 19. Dialectics as Ideology and the Construction of Reality: Frame for a Temachic Approach, Applied to Eisentstein's October (by Holthof, Marc)