Author Event with Bronislava Volkavá

Name: Author Event with Bronislava Volkavá
Start: 2024-11-14T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Morgenstern Books

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Morgenstern Books | Bloomington, IN

Join us for our author event with Bronislava Volková!
*********About the Author ********
Bronislava Volková is a Czech-American poet, translator, scholar and collage artist. She emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1974 and spent more than forty years in the United States.
She taught at six universities in three different countries, e.g. University of Cologne, University of Marburg, University of Virginia and Harvard University. Her home university eventually became Indiana University Bloomington,[5][7] where she taught since 1982 in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and for thirty years led the Czech program.[7] She became a Full Professor in 1991.
She is the author of many academic articles and two monographs from linguistic and literary semiotics: Emotive Signs in Language (1987)[8] and A Feminist's Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (1997).[9][10] Her newest work is a book of essays Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought:Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Migration to America (2021),[11] Czech version Podoby exilu v židovské literatuře a myšlení: Střední Evropa ve dvacátém století a přesun do Ameriky (2022).[12] Between the years 1976 and 1992, her work appeared under the name Bronislava Volek.[7]
Volková contributed to theory and structure of emotive signs and meanings,[13] developing differences between emotivity, expressivity, intensity and values, to Russian word-formation, pragmatics, etc. She has also worked on functions of linguistic repetition in Russian and Spanish dialogue, levels of emphasis in Russian, Spanish and Czech syntax and other semiotic topics.
Apart from her linguistic analyses, she has applied her semiotic theory to the work of important Czech authors[14] (Mácha, Kundera, Němcová, Hrabal,[15] Čapek, Havel and others). Her literary analyses focus on gender, responsibility, guilt, innocence, racism, nationalism, eurocentrism, relationship between private and public sphere, escape and vision, death and other topics.[7] She also analyzed poetry on the basis of emotive signs and meanings, characterizing the poetics of individual authors or poems via typology and frequency of emotive signs used. Her work was reviewed in a number of countries and parts of it were translated into Czech, Russian, German and Spanish.