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3 books match the query 'Procházka, Martin'
From Shakespeare to Autofiction
Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and FoucaultEdited by Martin Procházka
University College London, 2024
A critical examination of authorship that traces its historical evolution and asserts its significance from early to late modernity.
From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of empirical authors, through collaborative authorship and authorship as cultural capital, to the shifting roles of authors in recent autobiographical and biographical fiction. In response to Roland Barthes’s “removal of the Author” and its substitution by Michel Foucault’s “author function,” different historical forms of modern authorship are approached as multiplicities integrated by agency, performativity, and intensity in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Wolfgang Iser, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari.
The book offers a critical reassessment of recent debates on authorship in European and Latin American literature. It demonstrates that the outcomes of these debates need wider theoretical and methodological reflections, ones that take into account the historical development of authorship and shifting understandings of fiction, performativity, and new media. Individual chapters trace significant moments in the history of authorship from early modernity to the present (from Shakespeare’s First Folio to Latin American experimental autobiographical fiction), and discuss the methodologies that reinstate the author and authorship as the irreducible aspects of the literary process. It is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of literature seeking a deeper understanding of how authorship has evolved and continues to shape literary landscapes.
From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of empirical authors, through collaborative authorship and authorship as cultural capital, to the shifting roles of authors in recent autobiographical and biographical fiction. In response to Roland Barthes’s “removal of the Author” and its substitution by Michel Foucault’s “author function,” different historical forms of modern authorship are approached as multiplicities integrated by agency, performativity, and intensity in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Wolfgang Iser, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari.
The book offers a critical reassessment of recent debates on authorship in European and Latin American literature. It demonstrates that the outcomes of these debates need wider theoretical and methodological reflections, ones that take into account the historical development of authorship and shifting understandings of fiction, performativity, and new media. Individual chapters trace significant moments in the history of authorship from early modernity to the present (from Shakespeare’s First Folio to Latin American experimental autobiographical fiction), and discuss the methodologies that reinstate the author and authorship as the irreducible aspects of the literary process. It is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of literature seeking a deeper understanding of how authorship has evolved and continues to shape literary landscapes.
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Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies
Edited by Martin Procházka and Ondrej Pilný
Karolinum Press, 2012
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.
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Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances
Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare CongressMartin Procházka
University of Delaware Press, 2014
Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions, book culture, translations, film and television adaptations, festivals, and national heritage. The last section of the book focuses on the afterlife of Shakespeare in the work of the leading British dramatist Tom Stoppard.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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