{"product_id":"the-emerging-contours-of-the-medium-9781501398674","title":"The Emerging Contours of the Medium","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extensive and intricate book, which explores the complex and still inadequately explored connections between “literature” and “media,” numerous critical historical, philosophical, cybernetic and semiotic intersections are brought to the forefront. The significant volume examines and critiques various theoretical stances, with the authors delving deeply into historical contexts to understand the reasons behind the lack of fruitful dialogues between literary studies and media theory. Rather than providing a definitive conclusion to the issue, the authors instead lay the groundwork for a potential medial literary theory to emerge: a new “Prague” school of intermediality, or literary media theory, sees the light of day. * Jørgen Bruhn, Professor in the Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmerging Contours of the Medium\u003c\/i\u003e is an event in two disciplines, media studies and literary studies. The authors of this volume attempt nothing less than a conceptual integration of the media concept into the study of literature, and literature into the study of media. The problem of literature’s status as a medium and relation to other media has long been neglected, but this brilliant collective of Czech scholars has in one volume brought us far along the road toward a new understanding of the relation between literature and the media system. The individual essays range broadly across the domains of media studies and literary scholarship, creating nothing less than a conversation among European and Anglo-American theorists that did not exist before. For scholars of the English-speaking world, \u003ci\u003eContours of the Emerging Medium\u003c\/i\u003e gives us access to profound scholarship in the Czech language that the Anglo-American academy needs to know. A particular benefit of the book is its reminder also of the Prague School’s great historical contributions to literary and media theory. This volume of essays shows that the Prague School is thriving today and has much to teach us. * John Guillory, Julius Silver Professor of English, New York University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eList of Tables and Diagrams\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eAuthor Profiles\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e       Introduction: Genealogy of the Concept of the Medium and Literary Studies  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 1. The ‘Medium’ – Concept and History \u003ci\u003eTomáš Chudý (independent scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 2. Reflections of Mediality in Prague School Thinking  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller and Pavel Šidák \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 3. The Media Philosophy of Walter Benjamin  \u003ci\u003eMartin Ritter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 4. ‘Let the Ghosts Come Back’: Modern Spectrology and its Media  \u003ci\u003eJosef Vojvodík (Charles University, Czech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 5. Gesture and its (Proto-)Medial Thresholds  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic) \u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 6. Openness: The Information (Cybernetics) Moment in Literary Theory and Experimental Poetry of the 1950–1960s  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 7. Technics and Media  \u003ci\u003eTomáš Chudý (independent scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 8. Communication, Solution and Mediality: The Paradoxical Character of Williams’s Thinking on the Medium  \u003ci\u003eJosef Šebek (Charles University, Czech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 9. Social Systems Theory and the Medium  \u003ci\u003eTomáš Chudý (independent scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 10. Poetics - Semiosphere - Medium: Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics at the Crossroads  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 11. The Theory of Intermediality: Apparentness of Relations, Elusiveness of the Medium \u003ci\u003eStanislava Fedrová and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJedlickova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e   Polylogue: Steps to a Media Theory of Literature  \u003ci\u003eRichard Müller, Alice \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJedlickova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Stanislava Fedrová \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Academy of Sciences,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCzech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Josef Šebek (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Tomáš Chudý (Independent Scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e       \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040890126679,"sku":"9781501398674","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501398674.jpg?v=1750948178","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emerging-contours-of-the-medium-9781501398674","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}