Futures of the past

Steps and missteps in structuralism(s), semiotics, and aesthetics from a metacritical perspective

Emil Volek

21-38

Avatars of a research tradition

From Slavic structuralism to Anglo-American poetics and aesthetics

Uri Margolin

39-48

The semantic gesture

An invitation to a journey from the poetics to the aesthetics of a literary work

Tomáš Kubiček

49-60

Felix Vodička's legacy for literary history

Tetiana Soviak

61-68

Subjectivity and language revisited

Benveniste, Agamben, and recent theories of testimony

Barbara Havercroft

69-88

The theory of opposition revisited

Marcel Danesi

89-100

Narratology, eventfulness and context

Wolf Schmid

101-110

Reading functionally polyvalent events

Emma Kafalenos

111-120

Plot structures and semantic resonances in ancient Greek 'almost incest' narratives

Nancy Felson

121-136

Narratology: between dream and scientific intention

Or why the marquise no longer goes out at five

Wladimir Krysinski

137-144

How Kitano's fireworks are made

A structuralist approach to space and time in Takeshi Kitano's fireworks (1997)

Adam Grunzke

145-152

Between theatre and ritual in Švankmajer's Faust

Elisa Segnini

153-164

Poetika kino (re)considered

From naturschik to film figure

Yana Meerzon

165-176

Golems and robots in the theatre and cinema

Intermediality, hybridity and the Prague school

Veronika Ambros

177-190

Anthropomorphic city horizon

Structuralist's foregrounding in Antony Gormley's sculptures

Silvija Jestrovic

191-202

(impossible) representation in Garcia Lorca's the public

Andrès Pérez-Simon

203-214

Afterword

Lubomir Doležel

215-216