Full Product Details
Author: Richard Müller (Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN: 9781501398674
ISBN 10: 1501398679
Pages: 520
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Reviews
In this extensive and intricate book, which explores the complex and still inadequately explored connections between “literature” and “media,” numerous critical historical, philosophical, cybernetic and semiotic intersections are brought to the forefront. The significant volume examines and critiques various theoretical stances, with the authors delving deeply into historical contexts to understand the reasons behind the lack of fruitful dialogues between literary studies and media theory. Rather than providing a definitive conclusion to the issue, the authors instead lay the groundwork for a potential medial literary theory to emerge: a new “Prague” school of intermediality, or literary media theory, sees the light of day. * Jørgen Bruhn, Professor in the Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden *
In this extensive and intricate book, which explores the complex and still inadequately explored connections between “literature” and “media,” numerous critical historical, philosophical, cybernetic and semiotic intersections are brought to the forefront. The significant volume examines and critiques various theoretical stances, with the authors delving deeply into historical contexts to understand the reasons behind the lack of fruitful dialogues between literary studies and media theory. Rather than providing a definitive conclusion to the issue, the authors instead lay the groundwork for a potential medial literary theory to emerge: a new “Prague” school of intermediality, or literary media theory, sees the light of day. * Jørgen Bruhn, Professor in the Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Emerging Contours of the Medium is an event in two disciplines, media studies and literary studies. The authors of this volume attempt nothing less than a conceptual integration of the media concept into the study of literature, and literature into the study of media. The problem of literature’s status as a medium and relation to other media has long been neglected, but this brilliant collective of Czech scholars has in one volume brought us far along the road toward a new understanding of the relation between literature and the media system. The individual essays range broadly across the domains of media studies and literary scholarship, creating nothing less than a conversation among European and Anglo-American theorists that did not exist before. For scholars of the English-speaking world, Contours of the Emerging Medium gives us access to profound scholarship in the Czech language that the Anglo-American academy needs to know. A particular benefit of the book is its reminder also of the Prague School’s great historical contributions to literary and media theory. This volume of essays shows that the Prague School is thriving today and has much to teach us. * John Guillory, Julius Silver Professor of English, New York University, USA *
Author Information
Richard Müller is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic, and is an editor of the scholarly journal Czech Literature. His research fields include literary theory and the disciplinary intersections between literary and media theory, with a focus on (the history of) semiotics, the non-intentional aspects of literary mediation, and the writings of Franz Kafka in the context of the symptomatic analysis of modernity. From fall 2019 to spring 2020 he acted as Visiting Scholar at New York University (Department of English), USA. In spring and summer 2011, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Department of Slavic Languages at Brown University, USA. Among his publications is the widely cited Dictionary of Modern Literary Theory: Terms and Concepts (2011, in Czech, with co-editor P. Šidák).
