Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Russian Formalists as a Community; 2 Bakhtin and His Circle; 3 Prague Linguistic Circle; 4 From Circles to the School (and Back Again): The Case of Polish Structuralism; 5 The Greimassian Semiotic Circle; 6 Tel Quel: Theory and Practice; 7 Tales out of (the Yale) School; 8 The Chicago School: From Neo-Aristotelian Poetics to the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative; 9 The Geneva School: Form and Signification in Motion; 10 A School in the Woods: Tartu-Moscow Semiotics

11 Small World: The Tel Aviv School of Poetics and Semiotics12 Poetics and Hermeneutics (Poetik und Hermeneutik); 13 Annales on the Move; 14 Lignes: Intellectual Circle or Intellectual Spacing?; Contributors; Index