Modern Literary Theories in the Cultures of East Central and Eastern Europe from 1914 until Today. An Intellectual Entangled History.

我们项目的出发点是观察到，在20世纪，密集的知识分子运动不仅以思想交流的形式发生在东欧和东中欧，而且也是个人和机构、官方和非官方接触的结果。思想、知识分子和理论在德语国家、波兰、捷克斯洛伐克和俄罗斯的文化之间游走，基本上创造了一个共同的理论领域。然而，这种交流在很长一段时间内受到限制；政治事件一方面导致了几波流放浪潮，另一方面导致了东欧和中欧东部大部分地区的排斥（和隔离）。政治和语言的边界是西欧和英美世界忽视（东）中欧大部分思想和知识的原因。在流亡的知识分子的帮助下，只有一小部分理论找到了进入西方文学理论话语的途径：其中一些（如巴赫金的对话性）只是绕道而行，成为文学理论的中心概念，并在新的文化语境中被改造；然而，其他理论（如奥尔加·弗莱登伯格或斯特法尼亚·斯克瓦琴斯卡的理论）很少被俄罗斯或波兰理论领域以外的学者注意到。一个著名的成功转移思想的例子是文学结构主义的历史，它起源于跨文化的布拉格，并在第二次世界大战后发展成不同的学派：成为国际知名的巴黎结构主义，华沙结构主义和后来的布拉格结构主义。然而，只有法国的版本得到了国际观众的关注，尽管华沙和布拉格学派的元素有重要的影响，因为它们包含的元素可以在后来从法国和美国大学作为后结构主义引进的理论中发现。我们项目的目的是使东欧和东中欧理论的纠缠历史可见：它的运动，对话，篡夺或转变。结果将是一本基于对东欧和东中欧理论及其转变的原始研究的英语手册；这本书的题目是《东西方文论》。从俄罗斯形式主义到文化研究的跨文化和跨学科运动。东欧和东中欧文学理论的运动将首次从历史转移和文化纠缠的角度来看待。

The starting point of our project is the observation that in the 20th century intensive intellectual movements took place in East and East Central Europe not only in the form of an exchange of ideas, but also as a result of personal and institutional, official and unofficial contacts. Ideas, intellectuals and theories were wandering between the cultures of the German-speaking countries, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia, essentially creating a common theoretical field. This exchange was however constricted for long periods of time; political events resulted in several waves of exile on the one hand, and on the other led to the exclusion (and seclusion) of large parts of East and East Central Europe. Political as well as linguistic borders were the reason why Western Europe and the Anglo-American world ignored most of (East)Central European thinking and knowledge. With the help of intellectuals living in exile only a fraction of the theories nonetheless found their way into Western discourse of literary theory: some of them (e.g., Bakhtins dialogicity) only by way of detour became a central concept in literary theory and were transformed in new cultural contexts; others, however (e.g., the theories of Olga Freidenberg or Stefania Skwarczynska) have rarely been noticed by scholars working outside the field of Russian or Polish theory. A well-known example for a successful transfer of ideas is the history of literary structuralism which had its beginnings in transcultural Prague and developed into different schools after World War II: into the internationally visible Paris Structuralism as well as Warsaw Structuralism and later forms of Prague Structuralism. However, only the French version reached an international audience, although elements of the Warsaw and the Prague schools had an important impact insofar as they contained elements which can be discovered in those theories which later were (re)imported from French and American universities as Post-Structuralism. The aim of our project is to make the entangled history of East and East Central European theories visible: its movements, dialogues, usurpations or transformations. The result will be an English-language handbook based on original research of East and East Central European theory and its transformations; the title of the book is Literary Theory Between East and West. Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Movements from Russian Formalism to Cultural Studies. The movements of East and East Central European literary theory will for the first time be looked at from the perspective of a history of transfer and cultural entanglement.