Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012
Abstract
A detailed case study dealing with Hornát's interpretation of Dickens's oeuvre in a series of essays, which accompanied the project of its modern Czech translation for the Knihovna klasiků (The Classics Library). As a result, the chapter documents the interrelationship of literary studies with translation practice, an important aspect of the modern transformation of philology and focuses on the Structuralist influences on Hornát's approach to Dickens, especially Jan Mukařovský's theory of "norm" (closely related to Mathesius's functionalism), Felix Vodička's (1909-1974) concept of "concretization," and their notions of narrative structure, chiefly the relationship of "fabula" and "sujet" discussed first by the Russian Formalists.