Prague English studies and the transformation of philologies / edited by Martin Procházka and Ondřej Pilný.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Procházka, Martin, editor.

Pilný, Ondřej, editor.

Univerzita Karlova.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

Czech

English

French

Subjects (All):

Mathesius, Vilém, 1882-1945.

Mathesius, Vilém.

Linguistics--Czech Republic--Prague--History.

Linguistics.

Structural linguistics--Czech Republic--Prague.

Structural linguistics.

Structuralism (Literary analysis)--Czech Republic--Prague.

Structuralism (Literary analysis).

English philology.

History.

Czech Republic--Prague.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Karolinum Press, 2012.

Language Note:

Text in English, Czech and French.

Summary:

This book commemorates the centenary of Prague English Studies, inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilém Mathesius (1882-1945) the first Professor of English Language and Literature at Charles University. Mathesius's legacy is examined in the context of the Prague Linguistic Circle-of which he was a founder-together with the work of his followers in literary and translation studies. The volume subsequently explores diverse features and implications of Prague Structuralism, ranging from political aspects of Russian Formalist theories and the poetics of the Czech avant-garde to the most recent theories of rhetoric and signification. Book jacket.

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Published in association with Charles University in Prague.

"Published on the occasion of the centenary of Prague English Studies"--P. facing t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788024621562

8024621568

OCLC:

854500822

Publisher Number:

99954678444