LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & MEANING I: PROBLEMS OF LITERARY THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- JAN MUKAŘOVSKÝ: THE BEGINNINGS OF STRUCTURAL AND SEMIOTIC AESTHETICS -- REFERENCES -- THE AXES OF POETIC LANGUAGE -- PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM--A BRANCH OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT -- 1. Three Phenomenological Trends -- 2. The Role of the Subjective Attitude in Structuralism -- 3. The Linguistic Constitution of the World -- 4. On "The Primal Sense of Antithetical Words" -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE AS PROCESS: SERGEJ KARCEVSKIJ'S SEMIOTICS OF LANGUAGE -- THE WORK OF LITERATURE AND IDEOLOGY -- ZUR TYPOLOGIE DER ÄSTHETISCHEN UND KÜNSTLERISCHEN RICHTUNGEN -- THE PROBLEM OF STYLE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF GENERAL THEORY OF ART -- I. Formulation of the Problem -- II. The Problem of Style in the Histories of Art and Literature -- III. The Theoretical Premises of the Semantic Conception of Style -- IV. Style as a Specific Factor of the Higher Semantic Synthesis of a Work -- V. Typologies of Styles -- THE LUKÁCSIAN CONCEPT OF POETRY -- NACH DEM STRUKTURALISMUS -- 1. Strukturalismus und Neostrukturalismus -- 2. Die Geschichtlichkeit des Marxismus -- 3. Die Geschichtlichkeit der marxistischen Literaturwissenschaft -- 4. Ausblick -- ON CONCRETIZATION -- εποχή, ARTISTIC ANALYSIS, AESTHETIC CONCRETIZATION : REFLECTION UPON ROMAN INGARDEN'S REFLECTIONS -- 1. έιτοχή as the Central Prerequisite of Phenomenological reflection. -- 2. Ingarden's notion of έποχή. -- 3. Applicability of έποχή to the Cognition of Literary Art. -- 4. έτχοχή as a Sustaining System of Control. -- 5 . έτιοχή and the Totality of Mind. -- ROMAN INGARDEN: ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR LITERARY THEORY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ontology of Fiction. -- 3. Ontological and Epistemological Incompleteness.

4. The Double Structure of the Objects of Fiction -- 5. Ontological and Epistemological Nodality: the Nature of the Objects of Fiction -- ROMAN INGARDEN AND LITERARY GENRES.