Jan Mukařovský

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Jan Mukařovský
Jan Mukařovský, ca 1932
Born	(1891-11-11)11 November 1891 Písek, Bohemia
Died	8 February 1975(1975-02-08) (aged 83) Prague, Czechoslovakia
School	Structuralism
Main interests	Literary theory, aesthetics
Influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure

Jan Mukařovský (11 November 1891 – 8 February 1975) was a Czech literary and aesthetic theorist.

He was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with 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.

Works

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

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 7403779 LCCN: n50013043 ISNI: 0000 0001 1020 5657 GND: 118585630 BNF: cb12023725v NDL: 00472014 NKC: jk01082389

Persondata
Name	Mukarovsky, Jan
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	11 November 1891
Place of birth	Písek
Date of death	8 February 1975
Place of death	Prague

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