Maxwellův démon - Objekty, slovníky a řečové akty v literatuře – Papoušek Vladimír (2017)

Maxwell's Demon is a conceived collection of studies that primarily address the representation of objects and events in literary texts, the issue of speech acts in literature, and the question of whether literature exists as a specific institutional fact. A significant amount of space is also devoted to the relationship between fiction and non-fiction (or here literature and non-literature), which is explored through various types of so-called non-fiction texts (travel writing, diary-stylized records, memoirs, historical interpretations). The conceptualization of these issues is particularly inspired by Anglo-Saxon language theory and analytical philosophy, especially speech acts as conceived by J. L. Austin and subsequently John Searle, from whose work the concept of institutional fact was primarily adopted. The documented and analyzed material in the book mainly consists of texts from Czech literature (Majerová, Čapek, Deml, Hostovský, Weiner) and Czech literary criticism (Götz, Grossman, Blažíček). The volume includes a name index and is supplemented by an image appendix.