Lubomir Dolezel: a checklist of publications in English, 1966-1998

Style, Winter, 1998 by David Gorman

During his career, Lubomir Dolezel (1922-) has made numerous and significant contributions to literary criticism, literary theory, and the history of both criticism and theory. This listing has been drawn up with the aim of providing an overview of Dolezel's writings, which have remained widely scattered, even though, in recent years, he has published volumes summarizing some of his key results, such as Occidental Poetics (1990), a series of chapters in the history of poetics from Aristotle to the Prague school, and Heterocosmica (1998), which articulates a theory of fiction in terms of possible worlds. Much of Dolezel's best and most characteristic work remains in article form, however, in journals, conference symposia, and festschriften contributing to diverse fields. While this fact stands as a tribute to Dolezel's versatility, it makes a comprehensive view of his work difficult for the interested literary scholar.

Compounding this is the fact that Dolezel published in his native Czech until his emigration to Canada. Since about 1967, while he has published primarily in English, he has continued to publish in Czech from time to time; occasionally, his work has also seen initial publication (in translation) in French. The main part of this bibliography is confined to the period from 1966 - when Dolezel began to publish in English - through 1998. The listing is arranged chronologically by year. Within each annual section, the arrangement is as follows: books written, books edited, articles appearing in volumes, articles appearing in journals, entries in reference works, reviews, and other items. An appendix lists selected publications from the period before 1966. (For a complete though also more condensed listing of Dolezel's work from 1954 to 1997, see the bibliography published in Ceska literatura 45 [1997]: 649-62, to which this listing owes a great deal.)

Publications that I have not been able to see first-hand are asterisked. Bullets indicate essays authored or coauthored by Dolezel appearing in volumes edited or coedited by him.

With a few exceptions, this listing is limited to recording initial publications: when an item appeared first in English, translations into other languages (including Czech) have been omitted. The exceptions generally are cases where citations of some translated work of Dolezel's have appeared in the literature. As I have been able, I have added information tracing and cross-referencing items where one publication is subsumed by a later one. Much more work remains to be done, but I believe that students of Dolezel's important writings will find a useful tool here. May they make as much of it as it deserves. Items with Czech titles have been provided with English translations. For this and for much I else I want to thank Lubomir Dolezel for his unfailingly helpful assistance.

1966

And Petr Sgall and Josef Vachek, eds. Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics 1 (1966).(*)

And Jan Prucha "A Statistical Law of Grapheme Combinations." 33-43.

"Perspektivy strukturalni analyzy literarniho dila" [Perspectives on the structural analysis of the literary work]. Struktura a smysl literaniho dila. Festschrift for Jan Mukarovsky. Eds. Milan Jankovie et al. Prague: Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, 1966.70-86.(*)

"Jeste jednou k jazykoveho kodovani" [Once more on the model of encoding in language]. Slovo a slovesnost 27 (1966): 236-40.(*)

And Jiri Kraos and Jan Prucha. "K modelum jazykove komunikace" [On the models of language communication]. Kybernetika 2 (1966): 448-56.(*)

[Contributor:] Slovnik Spisovneho Jazyka Ceskeho [Dictionary of the Czech Literary Language]. 2 vols. University: U of Alabama P, 1966.

1967

And Petr Sgall, Marie Tesitelova, and Josef Vachek, eds. Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics 2 (1967).(*)

"The Prague School and the Statistical Theory of Poetic Language." 97-104.

"The Typology of the Narrator: Point of View in Fiction." To Honor Roman Jakobson. 3 vols. The Hague: Mouton, 1967. 541-52.

"Jmena zdrobnela" [Diminutives]. Tvoreni slov v ...estin[bullet] 2 (1967): 294-330.(*)

1968

Richard W. Bailey and. An Annotated Bibliography of Statistical Stylistics. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1968.

"Russian and Prague School Functional Stylistics." Style 2 (1968): 143-58.

1969

And Richard W. Bailey, ed. Statistics and Style. New York: American Elsevier, 1969.

"A Framework for the Statistical Analysis of Style." 10-25.

"Kompozice Labyrintu sveta a raje srdce J. A. Komenskeho" [The composition of J. A. Comenius's The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart]. Ceska literatura 17 (1969): 37-54.(*) In English as ch. 2 of Narrative Modes in Czech Literature (1973).

"K. Capek i Vl. Vancura." Umjetnost rijeci 13 (1969): 289-310(*)

1970

"The Study of Verbalized Content." Times Literary Supplement 23 July 1970: 807-08. Review of Vladimir Propp, Morfologiya skazki (2d ed., 1970).

[Review:] Krystyna Pomorska, Russian Formalist Theory and Its Poetic Ambiance (1968). International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 13 (1970): 208-10.(*)