Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West

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Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West

Edited by: Michał Mrugalski , Schamma Schahadat and Irina Wutsdorff
In collaboration with: Danuta Ulicka

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

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Literary Studies Literature of other Nations and Languages Slavic Literature

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
I Introduction: Entangled Literary Theory
Introduction Michał Mrugalski, Schamma Schahadat and Irina Wutsdorff Open Access Download PDF	1
The Migration of Concepts Renate Lachmann Open Access Download PDF	23
Translation of Theories – Theories of Translation Irina Wutsdorff Open Access Download PDF	47
Migrants of Theory Schamma Schahadat Open Access Download PDF	59
Spaces of Theory Danuta Ulicka Open Access Download PDF	76
A Case Study of a Migrating Term: Intertextuality Valentin Peschanskyi Open Access Download PDF	96
II Formations of Literary Theory: Schools and Institutions, Concepts and Methods
II.1 Institutions of Interdisciplinary Research from the 1910s until the 1930s
Journal and Society of Aesthetics and the General Science of Art Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	115
Institute of the History of the Arts Danuta Ulicka Open Access Download PDF	137
The Institute for the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV) Craig Brandist Open Access Download PDF	152
The State Academy of Art Studies in Moscow (RAKhN/GAKhN) Nikolaj Plotnikov Open Access Download PDF	164
II.2 Formalism in Russia, Poland, Bohemia, and Germany
Formalism in Germany Alexander Nebrig Open Access Download PDF	179
Herbartian Aesthetics in Bohemia Peter Steiner Open Access Download PDF	200
The Four Faces of Russian Formalism Igor Pilshchikov Open Access Download PDF	212
Formalism in Poland Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	258
Jurij Striedter’s Reading of Russian Formalism Renate Lachmann Open Access Download PDF	277
The North American Reception of Russian Formalism Jessica Merrill Open Access Download PDF	289
II.3 Phenomenology in German-speaking Areas, Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
Phenomenology in German-Speaking Areas and in Russia Patrick Flack Open Access Download PDF	307
Phenomenology in Czechoslovakia (Jan Patočka, Přemysl Blažíček) Josef Vojvodík Open Access Download PDF	323
Phenomenology in Poland Piotr Sadzik Open Access Download PDF	340
II.4 Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics in Russia Robert Bird Open Access Download PDF	357
Hermeneutics in the Czech Context (F. X. Šalda, Václav Černý, and Dimitrij Tschižewskij [Dmytro Chyzhevsky]) Josef Vojvodík Open Access Download PDF	369
Poetics and Hermeneutics Schamma Schahadat Open Access Download PDF	381
II.5 Psychoanalysis and Literature and the Psychology of Art
The Psychologisation of the Central and Eastern European Humanities: Mechanisms and Consequences of the Psychological Turn Serge Tchougounnikov Open Access Download PDF	395
Psychoanalysis and Literature and the Psychology of Art (C. G. Jung’s Archaic Images and the Russian Jungians) Aleksei Zherebin Open Access Download PDF	410
Psychoanalysis and Literature in Poland Lena Magnone Open Access Download PDF	423
‘Aesthetic Reaction’ and ‘Verbal Reaction’: Reader-response Criticism from Vygotskii to Voloshinov Sylvia Sasse Open Access Download PDF	438
II.6 Sociological and Marxist Theory
Realism and Modernism, Aesthetics and Politics: Lukács, Brecht, Adorno Josh Robinson Open Access Download PDF	449
Sociological and Marxist Literary Theory in Colonial Context Craig Brandist Open Access Download PDF	472
Marxism in Poland Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	486
II.7 Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School
Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. Precursors of the Frankfurt School in Transference with the Slavic Body of Thought Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	505
Tragic Realism: On Karel Kosík’s Insights into Kafka Francesco Tava Open Access Download PDF	529
II.8 Bakhtin, Bakhtin Circles and the (Re)Discovery of Bakhtin in the West
Bakhtin Circles Craig Brandist Open Access Download PDF	545
Bakhtin’s Philosophy of Literature and its Relation to Literary Theory, Literature and Culture Rainer Grübel Open Access Download PDF	561
The (Re)discovery of Bakhtin in Anglophone Criticism Ken Hirschkop Open Access Download PDF	593
II.9 Structuralism and Semiotics
Transfer as the Key: Understanding the Intellectual History of the Relationship between Formalism and Structuralism from the Perspective of the Prague Linguistic Circle Tomáš Glanc Open Access Download PDF	611
Approaches to an Anthropologically- Oriented Theory of Literature and Culture in the Czech Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Prague Structuralism Irina Wutsdorff Open Access Download PDF	632
Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: The Prague School Model Veronika Ambros Open Access Download PDF	653
Structuralism and Semiotics in Poland Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	670
Russian Structuralism and Semiotics in Literary Criticism and its Reception Rainer Grübel Open Access Download PDF	723
III Beyond Literary Theory
Semantic Paleontology and Its Impact Galin Tihanov Open Access Download PDF	785
Postcolonial Studies: Processes of Appropriation and Axiological Controversies Dirk Uffelmann Open Access Download PDF	807
From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies Craig Brandist Open Access Download PDF	821
Russian Theory in Africa: From Marxism to the Bakhtinian Postcolony Gesine Drews-Sylla Open Access Download PDF	833
Translation Studies (From Theories of Literary Translation to a Paradigm of Modernity) Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz Open Access Download PDF	847
The Eastern European Origins of the Contemporary Activist Humanities: The Tragic Template of Socialist Kantianism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Michał Mrugalski Open Access Download PDF	863
IV Some Key Terms
Alienation/Defamiliarisation/Estrangement (ostranenie) Erik Martin Open Access Download PDF	879
Carnival, Carnivalism and Bakhtin’s Culture of Laughter Rainer Grübel Open Access Download PDF	887
Function Irina Wutsdorff Open Access Download PDF	899
Hybridity Sylvia Sasse Open Access Download PDF	907
Indeterminacy and Concretization Piotr Sadzik Open Access Download PDF	912
Literary Evolution Schamma Schahadat Open Access Download PDF	918
Montage Bernd Stiegler Open Access Download PDF	926
Novoe zrenie / Neues Sehen / New Vision Susanne Strätling Open Access Download PDF	930
Theatricality Sylvia Sasse Open Access Download PDF	937
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	942
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	945

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Russian formalism; Mikhail Bakhtin; Structuralism and Semiotics; Yuri Lotman

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