‘Intentionality and Unintentionality in Art’: Jan Mukařovský’s ‘Pre-Post-Structuralism’, 1940–43
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Result on the web
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/875309" target="_blank" >https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/875309</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0071" target="_blank" >10.1353/see.2022.0071</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Intentionality and Unintentionality in Art’: Jan Mukařovský’s ‘Pre-Post-Structuralism’, 1940–43
Original language description
The paper aims to discuss Jan Mukařovský’s article “On Intentionality and Unintentionality in Art” in the context of a possible (post)post-structuralist paradigm, stressing his dichotomy of the work of art as a sign (standing for conventional or default works of art) on one hand vs his radical understanding of the work of art as a thing on the other. According to Mukařovský, the work of art as a thing stands out unpredictably when a literary text ceases to make unified sense as a communicative sign and starts to appear as an incomprehensible, silent, mute thing instead, thus radically provoking readers’ interpretative efforts. Mukařovskýʼs text was originally delivered as a talk in 1943 at a Prague Linguistic Circle session and was only published 23 years later in 1966 (and in English translation by Peter Steiner in 1977), while the notion of a fissure occurred in his manuscripts even a few years earlier. Comparing it to works by, among others, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze (and discussing Mukařovskýʼs work also in the context of thinking of his student, Milan Jankovič, namely Jankovič’s work from the late 60s), the article aims to point out that Mukařovskýʼs text at hand had foreshadowed post-structuralist literary theory by almost three decades.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Slavonic and East European Review
ISSN
0037-6795
e-ISSN
2222-4327
Volume of the periodical
100
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
401-421
UT code for WoS article
000933990300001
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