Roman Jakobson

Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.

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Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time

One measure of Roman Jakobson's towering role in linguistics is that his work has defined the field itself. Jakobson's contributions have now become a permanent part of American and European views on language. With his uncanny ability to survive devastating uprooting again and again--from Moscow to Prague to Upsalla to New York and finally to Cambridge--Jakobson was able to bring to each milieu new and stimulating ideas, which have broadened the perspective of linguistics while giving it new direction and specifying its domain. Linda Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston have assembled an intellectual overview of his work in linguistics from partial and complete works that they have arranged, introduced, and cross-referenced. Some appear here in print for the first time, others are newly translated into English. More than a convenient access to Jakobson's basic works, On Language presents a broad profile of the polymathic general linguist who suggested radical innovations in every area of linguistic theory. The breadth of Jakobson's engagement in linguistics is captured by the editors' informative introduction and by their perspicacious presentation of topics. His general view of the science of linguistics is followed by his stunning contributions to linguistic metatheory in the areas of structure and function. Various aspects of historical, typological, and sociolinguistics are also explored along with his phonological theory--perhaps his most influential contribution--and his views on grammatical semantics. A topic that increasingly preoccupied Jakobson in his later career, the interrelationship between sound and meaning, is presented here in detail. The concluding three essays focus on the various relations between linguistics and the human and natural sciences, which led Jakobson ultimately to be characterized as an interdisciplinary thinker.

On Language

Aphasia and Phonological Universals

Child Language

The Framework of Language

Moris Halle

Fundamentals of Language

Escrito numa época conturbada da história russa, este livro traz um ensaio inédito do lingüista e crítico literário Roman Jakobson (1896-1982). A partir do suicídio do poeta Vladímir Maiakóvski (1893-1930), o autor faz uma profunda reflexão sobre os poetas das duas últimas décadas do século XIX, responsáveis pela segunda grande explosão da poesia na literatura russa. O texto, de 1930, é fruto de uma longa convivência entre Maiakóvski e Jakobson. É ao mesmo tempo uma elaboração crítica e afetiva da morte do poeta, de quem o o autor era grande amigo. Abandonando a ortodoxia do formalismo russo, Jakobson repensa as relações entre biografia e obra poética. Nos poemas do amigo morto, rastreia o tema do suicídio como um fato histórico-literário, e não meramente biográfico.

Geracao Que Esbanjou Seus Poetas, a

Saggi di linguistica generale

preimushchestvenno v sopostavlenii s russkim

O cheshskom stikhe

Pt. 1. Comparative Slavic studies--the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition--pt. 2. Medieval slavic studies.

Comparative Slavic Studies. The Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition

Studies 1931-1981

Russian and Slavic Grammar

Selected Writings

Selected Writings: Phonological studies

Medieval Slavic Studies

Stephen Rudy

Yeats' Sorrow of Love Through the Years

Phonological Studies

An important collection of writings and memoirs on the Russian Futurist movement from one of America's pre-eminent linguists and literary theorists. Born in Moscow in 1896, Roman Jakobson brought an extraordinary rare poet's sensibility to his exploration of language. This volume, which fills a major gap in the literature of the Russian avant-garde, is a lively collection of letters, memoirs, poetry, prose, and essays. It includes recollections of Mayakovsky, Khlebnikow and others.

My Futurist Years

Selected Writings: On verse, its masters and explorers

Roman Jakobson

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