[5] October 15 — EXCURSION TO PRAGUE AND BACK: STRUCTURALISM, FORMALISM, THEORY
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
"Methodological problems stemming from the conception of language as a system and the significance of this conception in Slavic languages," from Theses Presented to the First Congress of Slavic Philologists in Prague, 1929, in Peter Steiner, ed., The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946, 5-8.
Aleksandr Dmitriev and Galina Babak, "The postponed revival, or maps of Atlantis," Ab Imperio no. 4 (2021): 63-83.
Each student chooses ONE response to read from roundtable devoted to Dmitriev and Babak's book.Further resources:
"Deutsche Gesellschaft für slavistische Forschung in Prag," Slavische Rundschau 3 (1931): 1-7.
Roman Jakobson, "Futurism" (1919), in Language in Literature, K. Pomorska and S. Rudy, eds. (1987), 28–33.
Vilém Mathesius, "New currents and tendencies in linguistic research" (1927), from Praguiana: Some Basic and Less Known Aspects of the Prague Linguistic School, ed. Josef Vachek (1983), 45–63.
Dr. K. Chekhovych, "Перший зїзд славянських фільольоґівв Празі," Літературно-науковий вісник no. 11 (1929): 1021-1025.
L. Bileckyj, "Головні напрями українскої літературно-наукової критики за останніх 50 літ" (1929).
Jindrich Toman, The Magic of a Common Language: Jakobson, Mathesius, Trubetzkoy, and the Prague Linguistic Circle (1995).
Galin Tihanov, "Why did modern literary theory originate in Central and Eastern Europe? (And why is it now dead?)," Common Knowledge 10 n. 1 (2004): 61–81.
Catherine Andreyev and Ivan Savicky, Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918-1938 (2004).Katerina Clark, "Promethean linguistics," in Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (1995), 201-223.
Galin Tihanov, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). [on-campus access]
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