Semiotics of art : Prague School contributions

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Semiotics of art : Prague School contributions

edited by Ladislav Matejka and Irwin R. Titunik

MIT Press, 1984, c1976

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Art as semiotic fact / Jan Mukařovský
  • Costume as a sign / Petr Bogatyrev
  • Folk song from a functional point of view / Petr Bogatyrev
  • Semiotics in the folk theater / Petr Bogatyrev
  • Forms and functions of folk theater / Petr Boratyrev
  • Signs in the Chinese theater / Karel Brušák
  • Dynamics of the sign in the theater / Jindřich Honzl
  • Dramatic text as a component of theater / Jiří Veltruský
  • The hierarchy of dramatic devices / Jindřich Honzl
  • Basic features of dramatic dialogue / Jiří Veltruský
  • Construction of semantic contexts / Jiří Veltruský
  • Is the cinema in decline? / Roman Jakobson
  • Poetic reference / Jan Mukařovský
  • What is poetry? / Roman Jakobson
  • Signum et signatum / Roman Jakobson
  • The contours of The safe conduct / Roman Jakobson
  • Response to verbal art / Felix Vodička
  • A scheme of narrative time / Lubomír Doležel
  • The translation of verbal art / Jiří Levý
  • The essence of the visual arts / Jan Mukařovský
  • Some aspects of the pictorial sign / Jiří Veltruský
  • Postscript : Prague School semiotics / Ladislav Matejka

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The study of art as the creative use of the sign became one of its principal areas of critical examination, and in this collection of 21 essays this concept of semiotics is brought to bear on a wide range of the arts, including theater, film, poetry, folk art, and painting.

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