The Structure of the Literary Process: Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodicka(8 Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe)

These papers on the structure of the literary process were brought together in memory of Felix Vodička (1909–1974). Contributions by: Jacek Baluch, Miroslav Červenka, Květoslav Chvatík, E.M. van Dam-Havelková, Sergej Davydov, Lubomir Doležel, Miroslav Drozda, Jan van der Eng, F.W. Galan, Mojmír Grygar, Wolfgang Iser, Milan Jankovič, Hans Robert Jauss, Renate Lachmann, Gail Lenhoff, Ladislav Matějka, Tone Pretnar, Lucylla Pszczołowska, Janice A. Radway, Charles Eric Reeves, Herta Schmid, Miloš Sedmidubský, Peter Steiner, Wendy Steiner, Oleg Sus, Ronald Vroon.

Table of Contents:
1. Die Sprache der Literaturwissenschaft gegenuber der Sprache der Literaturkritik (by Baluch, Jacek); 2. Narration and Description from the Standpoint of Functional Sentence Perspective (by Cervenka, Miroslav); 3. Bachtins Asthetik des Wortes uns seine Dostoevskij-Interpretation (by Chvatik, Kvetoslav); 4. In Between a Play and a Story: Smocek's Piknik (by Dam-Havelkova, E.M. van); 5. Tales from One Pocket: Detective and Justice Stories of Karl Capek (by Davydov, Sergej); 6. The Conceptual System of Prague School Poetics: Mukarovsky and Vodicka (by Dolezel, Lubomir); 7. Vodicka's The Beginnings of Modern Czech Prose (Pocatky Krasne Prozy Novoceske) in the Light of the Theory of Fiction (by Drozda, Miroslav); 8. The Effectiveness of the Aesthetic Function (by Eng, Jan van der); 9. Is Reception History a Literary Theory? (by Galan, F.W.); 10. The Role of Personality in Literary Development (by Grygar, Mojmir); 11. Spenser's Arcadia: The Interrelation of Fiction and History (by Iser, Wolfgang); 12. Die Inhaltsfunktion der kunstlerischen Form als offenes Problem (by Jankovic, Milan); 13. Norwid and Baudelaire as Contemporaries: A Notable Case of Overdue Concretization (by Jauss, Hans Robert); 14. Potebnja's Concept of Image (by Lachmann, Renate); 15. The Aesthetic Function and Medieval Russian Culture (by Lenhoff, Gail); 16. Literary History in a Semiotic Framework: Prague School Contributions (by Matejka, Ladislav); 17. On Kuralt's Slovene and German Translations of Boguslavski's Song, "Swiat Srogi, Swiat Przewrotny" (by Pretnar, Tone); 18. Sound Texture: General Problems (by Pszczolowska, Lucylla); 19. The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text (by Radway, Janice A.); 20. Convention and Literary Behavior (by Reeves, Charles Eric); 21. Der Funktionsbegriff des Tschechischen Strukturalismus in der Theorie und in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Analyse am Beispiel von Havels Horsky Hotel (by Schmid, Herta); 22. Literary Evolution as a Communicative Process (by Sedmidubsky, Milos); 23. The Semiotics of Literary Reception (by Steiner, Peter); 24. A Cubist Historiography (by Steiner, Wendy); 25. From the Pre-history of Czech Structuralism: F.X. Salda, T.G. Masaryk and the Genesis of Symbolist Aesthetics and Poetics in Bohemia (by Sus, Oleg); 26. Four Analogues to Xlebnikov's "Language of the Gods" (by Vroon, Ronald); 27. Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Felix Vodicka (by Galan, F.W.); 28. Contributors