Jan Mukařovský

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Jan Mukařovský (11 November 1891, Písek – 8 February 1975, Prague) was a Czech literary theoretic and aesthetician.

He was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with the early structuralism as well as with the Prague Linguistic Circle, and for his development of the ideas of Russian formalism. Mukařovský had a profound influence on structuralist theory of literature comparable to that of Roman Jakobson.

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  • Dějiny české literatury (1959 – 1961), history of Czech literature, chief editor, three volumes
  • Studien zur strukturalistischen Ästhetik und Poetik (1974)
  • On Poetic Language (1976), translated by John Burbank and Peter Steiner
  • The Word and Verbal Art: Selected Essays (1977), translated and edited by John Burbank and Peter Steiner
  • Kapitel aus der Ästhetik (1978)
  • Structure Sign and Function: Selected Essays (1978), translated and edited by John Burbank and Peter Steiner
  • Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts (1979), Mark E. Suino translator