Phenomenology in Czechoslovakia (Jan Patočka, Přemysl Blažíček)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. I Introduction: Entangled Literary Theory
4. Introduction 1
5. The Migration of Concepts 23
6. Translation of Theories – Theories of Translation 47
7. Migrants of Theory 59
8. Spaces of Theory 76
9. A Case Study of a Migrating Term: Intertextuality 96
10. II Formations of Literary Theory: Schools and Institutions, Concepts and Methods
11. II.1 Institutions of Interdisciplinary Research from the 1910s until the 1930s
12. Journal and Society of Aesthetics and the General Science of Art 115
13. Institute of the History of the Arts 137
14. The Institute for the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV) 152
15. The State Academy of Art Studies in Moscow (RAKhN/GAKhN) 164
16. II.2 Formalism in Russia, Poland, Bohemia, and Germany
17. Formalism in Germany 179
18. Herbartian Aesthetics in Bohemia 200
19. The Four Faces of Russian Formalism 212
20. Formalism in Poland 258
21. Jurij Striedter’s Reading of Russian Formalism 277
22. The North American Reception of Russian Formalism 289
23. II.3 Phenomenology in German-speaking Areas, Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
24. Phenomenology in German-Speaking Areas and in Russia 307
25. Phenomenology in Czechoslovakia (Jan Patočka, Přemysl Blažíček) 323
26. Phenomenology in Poland 340
27. II.4 Hermeneutics
28. Hermeneutics in Russia 357
29. Hermeneutics in the Czech Context (F. X. Šalda, Václav Černý, and Dimitrij Tschižewskij [Dmytro Chyzhevsky]) 369
30. Poetics and Hermeneutics 381
31. II.5 Psychoanalysis and Literature and the Psychology of Art
32. The Psychologisation of the Central and Eastern European Humanities: Mechanisms and Consequences of the Psychological Turn 395
33. Psychoanalysis and Literature and the Psychology of Art (C. G. Jung’s Archaic Images and the Russian Jungians) 410
34. Psychoanalysis and Literature in Poland 423
35. ‘Aesthetic Reaction’ and ‘Verbal Reaction’: Reader-response Criticism from Vygotskii to Voloshinov 438
36. II.6 Sociological and Marxist Theory
37. Realism and Modernism, Aesthetics and Politics: Lukács, Brecht, Adorno 449
38. Sociological and Marxist Literary Theory in Colonial Context 472
39. Marxism in Poland 486
40. II.7 Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School
41. Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. Precursors of the Frankfurt School in Transference with the Slavic Body of Thought 505
42. Tragic Realism: On Karel Kosík’s Insights into Kafka 529
43. II.8 Bakhtin, Bakhtin Circles and the (Re)Discovery of Bakhtin in the West
44. Bakhtin Circles 545
45. Bakhtin’s Philosophy of Literature and its Relation to Literary Theory, Literature and Culture 561
46. The (Re)discovery of Bakhtin in Anglophone Criticism 593
47. II.9 Structuralism and Semiotics
48. Transfer as the Key: Understanding the Intellectual History of the Relationship between Formalism and Structuralism from the Perspective of the Prague Linguistic Circle 611
49. Approaches to an Anthropologically- Oriented Theory of Literature and Culture in the Czech Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Prague Structuralism 632
50. Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: The Prague School Model 653
51. Structuralism and Semiotics in Poland 670
52. Russian Structuralism and Semiotics in Literary Criticism and its Reception 723
53. III Beyond Literary Theory
54. Semantic Paleontology and Its Impact 785
55. Postcolonial Studies: Processes of Appropriation and Axiological Controversies 807
56. From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies 821
57. Russian Theory in Africa: From Marxism to the Bakhtinian Postcolony 833
58. Translation Studies (From Theories of Literary Translation to a Paradigm of Modernity) 847
59. The Eastern European Origins of the Contemporary Activist Humanities: The Tragic Template of Socialist Kantianism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 863
60. IV Some Key Terms
61. Alienation/Defamiliarisation/Estrangement (ostranenie) 879
62. Carnival, Carnivalism and Bakhtin’s Culture of Laughter 887
63. Function 899
64. Hybridity 907
65. Indeterminacy and Concretization 912
66. Literary Evolution 918
67. Montage 926
68. Novoe zrenie / Neues Sehen / New Vision 930
69. Theatricality 937
70. Contributors 942
71. Index of Names 945