Historic Structures : The Prague School Project, 1928-1946.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galan, F. W.

Contributor:

National Flood Insurance Program (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

Floodplain management bulletin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--United States.

Historic buildings.

Flood damage prevention--United States.

Flood damage prevention.

Floodplain management--United States.

Floodplain management.

Flood insurance--United States.

Flood insurance.

Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : University of Texas Press, 1985.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet from the FEMA web site. Address as of 7/22/09: http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3282; current access is available via PURL.

Summary:

In this first book-length study of Czech structuralism and semiotics in English, F. W. Galan explores one of the most important intellectual currents of the twentieth century, filling the gap between what has been written of the Russian formalism of the twenties and the French structuralism of the sixties and seventies. He records the evolution within the Prague Linguistic Circle of those theories which concern literature's change in time and the place of literature in society. In doing so, he reveals how the work of the Prague Linguistic Circle in the years 1928 to 1946 vindicate structuralism against its critics' charges that the structuralist approach—in linguistics, literary theory, film studies, and related fields—is inherently unhistorical. Overcoming this apparent methodological impasse was the main challenge confronted by the scholars of the Prague School–Roman Jakobson and Jan Mukarovsky, in particular.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Translation

Abbreviations

1. A Brief Introduction

2. Language Diachrony and Literary Evolution

3. An Attempt at a Historical Ordering of Poetic Structure

4. The Semiotic Reformulation

5. Readers' Reception History and the Individual Poetic Talent

6. A Summary Conclusion

Appendix 1. A List of Lectures on Poetics, Aesthetics and Semiotics Given in the Prague Linguistic Circle, 1926-1948

Appendix 2. A List of Secondary and Related Sources

Index

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on July 22, 2009).

"FEMA P-467-2."

"May 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4773-0083-X

OCLC:

1309050219