Monologues

Mark Schreiber

David Bradby

Ashley Lucas

Brian Singleton

Mark Berninger

Johannes Birringer

Eamonn Jordan

Dee Heddon

Catharine McLean-Hopkins

Rebecca D'Monte

Litteraria Pragensia

Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity

Literature & Fiction

Louis Armand

History & Criticism

This volume is dedicated to the theoretical legacy of Ferdinand de Saussure, which is still challenging not only for linguistics, but for many other disciplines. For Saussure, to conceive language as a system made it possible to found linguistics as an autonomous scientific discipline. However, if language could be seen and treated as a system, it had consequences not only for linguistics, but also for aesthetics, anthropology, or cultural theory. With respect to Czech functional structuralism, as developed by Jan Mukarovsky and others, it seems important that it was in Prague that Saussurean thinking on language came in touch with phenomenological philosophy. Since Husserl's work was already authoritative at the beginning of the 30th, the confrontation of Saussure's theory of language with phenomenological reflections on language was inevitable. The interaction between structuralism and phenomenology then continued, above all, in the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. But if the interaction between structuralist theory and phenomenology is in focus of this volume, it is not so much for historical reasons; it is rather due to a mapping of the possible views of language that issue from the confrontation of structuralist and phenomenological tradition of thinking. With regard to language, a high attention is paid to the post-phenomenological and the post-structuralist theories, too.

Dynamic Structure (Language as an Open System)

Jan Sokol

Ondrej Sladek

Michal Ajvaz

Petr Urban

Emil Volek

Josef Fulka

Yong Ho Choi

Alice Klikova

Petr Kouba

Thresholds - Essays on the International Prague Poetry Scene

Ali Alizadeh

Jules Mann

Laura Conway

Gwendolyn Albert

Vadim Erent

Jane Lewty

Katerina Pinosova

Chris Crawford & Stephan Delbos

...there are some very detailed descriptions, protocols circulating in slow motion like a ring of flies in the middle of an interrogation room...' Who but John Kinsella and Louis Armand could have invented and laid out the 21st Century protocols that govern the intriguing collaborative poems in Synopticon? Encyclopedic, witty, packed with knowledge about arcane subjects, this is a book to sample and reread with ever-increasing knowledge, pleasure, and admiration." --Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. Synopticon was composed as a collaborative project during the course of an extended email exchange between 1998 and 2008. Part poetics of collaboration, part cultural archaeology, part textual collage, this book records an investigation into authorship and authenticity in the construction of social texts and cultural artefacts. Collaborative praxis is not defined here solely as a method, but as a condition of discourse; a poiesis. LOUIS ARMAND's books include Inexorable Weather (Arc, 2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (Salt, 2003), and he is editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern University Press, 2007). He is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague. JOHN KINSELLA's books include Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (Manchester University Press, 2007), Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography (WW Norton, 2008), and he is the editor of The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2009). He is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Synopticon

John Kinsella

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