Martin Procházka - Selected Publications#

Book:

1) Martin Procházka (ed.) From Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and Foucault (London: UCL Press, 23 April 2024).

The collaborative monograph focuses on recent theoretical and historical debates on literary authorship in European and Latin American cultures throughout modernity, and responds critically to the influential theories of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. Individual chapters contain case studies exploring important moments in the history of authorship from the early modernity to the present and discussing the methodologies reinstating the author and authorship as irreducible parts of literary process. In these ways, the book satisfies the needs of more concrete and historically grounded knowledge of individual aspects of modern literary authorship and its connection with recent theoretical debates.

Chapters in Books:

2) “From Boundaries to Interfaces: Autopoietic Systems and the ‘Ontology of Motion’,” in Devouring One’s Own Tail: Autopoiesis in Perspective, ed. Vojtěch Kolman and Tomáš Murár (Prague: Karolinum - Charles University Press, 2022) pp. 61-81, ISBN 978-80-246-5131-6, ISBN 978-80-246-5132-3 (pdf), pp. 331.

Theoretical discussion of the difference between boundary and interface in autopoetic systems. Critique of Thomas Nail's books The Ontology of Motion (New York: OUP, 2018) and Theory of Boundaries (New York: OUP, 2016). Pointing out the importance of interfaces in the theory of intercultural communication.

3) “Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable” (jointly with David Duff, Nicholas Halmi, Fiona Stafford and Laurent Folliot), in Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities, ed. Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021), pp. 227-272, ISBN 978-1-80064-072-6; 978-1-80064-073-3 (PDF), pp. 287, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0232

Discussion of the approaches to the periodisation of European and North American Romanticism among the members of a team of leading international scholars on Romanticism (from Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, La Sorbonne and Charles University, Prague).

4) “The Czech Reception of Blake: From Catholic Modernism to Alternative Culture,” in The Reception of William Blake in Europe, ed. Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 457-478. ISBN HB 978-1-3500-9763-6, 2 vols. pp. 775.

First discussion of the reception of William Blake in the Czech and Central European context.

Journal Articles:

5) “Migration and Intercultural Communication: An Introduction,” Litteraria Pragensia, 31.61 (2022), pp. 1-7. ISSN 0862-8424 (print), 2571-452X (online) DOI 10.14712/2571452X.2021.61.1

A theoretical introduction to a special issue (contributors include scholars from Brown University and universities of Cambridge, Göttingen and Prague) published in an international journal listed in the Scopus database.

6) “Between Adam Smith and Walter Scott: Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Czech Culture of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century,” Slovo a smysl/Word and Sense, 17.34 (2020), pp. 57-69 ISSN: 2336-6680 DOI: 10.14712/23366680.2020.2.3

A pioneering study of the influences of Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in Czech literature. Published in a journal listed in the Scopus database.

7) “Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: Bartholomew Fair as a Heterotopia of Hamlet,” Prague Journal of English Studies, 8.1 (2019), pp. 9-20, ISSN1804-8722 (print), 2336-2685 (online).

The relationship of the two plays is discussed using a methodology of adaptation studies.

8) “Senses against Proportions: Visuality and Vision in the Czech Modernist Reception of William Blake,” Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017 (2018), pp. 12-23. ISSN 2336-3347.

The first theoretical discussion of Czech modernist reception of William Blake.

9) “Imagining the Difference: Prefigurations of Poststructuralism in The Prelude, Litteraria Pragensia, 27.54, 2017 (2018), pp. 114-54, ISSN 0862-8424.

Theoretical discussion of the representations of the self in the three versions of a major poem by William Wordsworth.

10) “The ‘French’ Books of The Prelude: A Virtual Round Table,” (jointly with David Duff, Marc Porée, Christoph Bode, Laurent Folliot and Christy Edwall), Litteraria Pragensia, 27.54, 2017 (2018), pp. 114-54, ISSN 0862-8424.

A round table discussion of the representation of the French Revolution and its impact (the participants are from Queen Mary University of London, universities of Oxford and Munich, and La Sorbonne).