Ladislav Matejka
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Ladislav Matejka, born May 30, 1919 in the city of České Budějovice
, is an important scholar of semiotics and linguistic theory, who translated and published many contributions to Prague linguistic circle
theory. He received his doctorate in Charles University in Prague in 1948 and then emigrated to the U.S. From 1956 until 1989 he taught at University of Michigan in the Slavic Department. He founded Michigan Slavic Publications in 1962, a series that has published more than 100 volumes by authors such as Roman Jakobson
and Nikolai Trubetzkoy
.
From 1982-1993 he edited the series Cross Currents that published material from Milan Kundera, Josef Škvořecký and Czeslaw Milosz.. This publication is available online at
His academic correspondence has been deposited at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Ceské Budejovice
České Budějovice is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia and the Academy of Sciences...
, is an important scholar of semiotics and linguistic theory, who translated and published many contributions to Prague linguistic circle
Prague linguistic circle
The Prague school or the Prague linguistic circle was an influential group of literary critics and linguists in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis during the years 1928–1939. It has had significant continuing influence on linguistics and semiotics...
theory. He received his doctorate in Charles University in Prague in 1948 and then emigrated to the U.S. From 1956 until 1989 he taught at University of Michigan in the Slavic Department. He founded Michigan Slavic Publications in 1962, a series that has published more than 100 volumes by authors such as Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century...
and Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology...
.
From 1982-1993 he edited the series Cross Currents that published material from Milan Kundera, Josef Škvořecký and Czeslaw Milosz.. This publication is available online at
His academic correspondence has been deposited at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Selected Works
- Serbo-Croatian oral and written verbal art: contacts and conflicts. Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986.
- Readings in Russian poetics. M. M. Baxtin (Mikhail BakhtinMikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language...
). Compiled by Ladislav Matejka. Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1971. - Language and literary theory: in honor of Ladislav Matejka. Benjamin A. Stolz, I. R. Titunik, Lubomír Doležel. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1984.