Jan Mukařovský


Jan Mukařovský (born November 11, 1891 in Písek, died February 8, 1975 in Prague) is a Czech literary theoretician and aesthetist, a leading representative of the Prague School of Architecture.

Mukařovský was primarily concerned with verse and euphology. He worked out a structuralist method of analyzing a literary work whose basic assumption was to treat the work as a structure in which all components have their place and function within the whole and focus on the aesthetic function of all formal orders. In Mukařov's terms, the structure is not static, but dynamic and relies on oppositions that build inner tension. The work does not function in isolation from the outside world, but is an element in increasingly wider structures. His methodology was formulated and tested on the material of the poetry of the leading Czech romanticist Karel Hynek Mach, the author of the poem May (1836).

November 22, 1950, in Warsaw, the Second Peace Defender Congress was elected to the World Peace Council. More important works

Translations into Polish: Bibliography

Ondřej Sládek, Jan Mukařovský. Life and Work, Host, Brno 2015.

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