Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies

by Martin Procházka (Editor), Ondrej Pilný (Editor)

Overview

This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilém Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the work of major representatives, such as Mathesius, Vladislav Vancura and others, and reviewing important developments in literature-oriented Prague English Studies with respect to Prague Structuralism. Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies will focus on the methodological problems of the discipline related to the transformation of humanistic and modern philologies, searching for the links between two historically distinct interdisciplinary projects: humanist philology and structuralist semiology. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788024630397
Publisher:	Karolinum Press
Publication date:	11/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	341 KB

About the Author

Martin Procházka and Ondrej Pilný are lecturers in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University Prague.

Table of Contents

Introduction

      Martin Procházka

1. Legacies: Vilém Mathesius and Followers

The Value of Language: Rhetoric, Semiology, Philology and the Functional Approach

      Martin Procházka

Vilém Mathesius as Literary Historian

      Helena Znojemská

Vilém Mathesius as Translator and Theoretician of Translation

      Bohsulav Mánek

A Structuralist History of Zdeněk Vančura

      Pavla Veselá

Jaroslav Hornát’s Critical Method in His Studies of Charles Dickens

      Zdeněk Beran

2. Contexts and Outcomes: From Prague Structuralism to Radical Philology

Structuralism and the Prague Linguistic Circle Revisited

      Robert J.C. Young

Functional Linguistics as the “Science of Poetic Forms”: An ABC of the Prague Linguistic Circle’s Poetics

      David Vichnar

A Gateway to a Baroque Rhetoric of Jacques Lacan and Niklas Luhmann

      Erik Roraback

Jan Grossman, Structuralism, and the Grotesque

      Ondřej Pilný

Attesting / Before the Fact

      Louis Armand

Contributors

Index