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'''Roman O. Jakobson''' (Роман Осипович Якобсон, 1896-1982) was a linguist, formalist, and literary theorist.
'''Roman O. Jakobson''' (Роман Осипович Якобсон, 1896-1982) was a linguist, formalist, and literary theorist.
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4 June 1941, arrives in the United States at New York harbor. 1942, appointed to the Faculté des Lettres, École Libre des Hautes Études, New York, as Professor of General Linguistics, and to the Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientale et Slave as Professor of Slavic Philology; taught there 1942-1946. 1943-46, Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University. 1944, founding member of the [[Linguistic Circle of New York]] and its journal ''Word''. 1946, appointed to newly formed Thomas G. Masaryk Chair of Czechoslovak Studies, Columbia University, which he occupied until 1949. 1949, appointed Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of General Linguistics, Harvard University. April 1957, concurrently appointed Visiting Institute Professor, MIT; reappointed Visiting Institute Professor for a six month period beginning July 1958. He continued in his role at MIT until becoming emeritus in 1970, a position held concurrently with his Harvard chair until he became emeritus at Harvard in 1965. [http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc72.html]
4 June 1941, arrives in the United States at New York harbor. 1942, appointed to the Faculté des Lettres, École Libre des Hautes Études, New York, as Professor of General Linguistics, and to the Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientale et Slave as Professor of Slavic Philology; taught there 1942-1946. 1943-46, Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University. 1944, founding member of the [[Linguistic Circle of New York]] and its journal ''Word''. 1946, appointed to newly formed Thomas G. Masaryk Chair of Czechoslovak Studies, Columbia University, which he occupied until 1949. 1949, appointed Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of General Linguistics, Harvard University. April 1957, concurrently appointed Visiting Institute Professor, MIT; reappointed Visiting Institute Professor for a six month period beginning July 1958. He continued in his role at MIT until becoming emeritus in 1970, a position held concurrently with his Harvard chair until he became emeritus at Harvard in 1965. [http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc72.html]
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Bibliography
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Works
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[[Image:Transrational_Boog_cover.jpg|thumb|258px|Alexei Kruchenykh, Roman Jakobson (as Aliagrov), ''Zaumnaya gniga'', 1915. (in Russian). [[Media:Kruchenykh_Alexei_Jakobson_Roman_Transrational_Boog.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Transrational_Boog_cover.jpg|thumb|258px|Alexei Kruchenykh, Roman Jakobson (as Aliagrov), ''Zaumnaya gniga'', 1915. (in Russian). [[Media:Kruchenykh_Alexei_Jakobson_Roman_Transrational_Boog.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Halle_Morris_Fundamentals_of_Language.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, Morris Halle, ''Fundamentals of Language'', 1956. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Halle_Morris_Fundamentals_of_Language.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Halle_Morris_Fundamentals_of_Language.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, Morris Halle, ''Fundamentals of Language'', 1956. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Halle_Morris_Fundamentals_of_Language.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_2.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, ''Selected Writings, Vol. 2: Word and Language'', 1971. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_2_Word_and_Language.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_2.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, ''Selected Writings, Vol. 2: Word and Language'', 1971. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_2_Word_and_Language.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_8.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, ''Selected Writings, Vol. 8: Major Works, 1976-1980'', 1988. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_8_Major_Works_1976-1980.pdf|Download]].]]
[[Image:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_8.jpg|thumb|258px|Roman Jakobson, ''Selected Writings, Vol. 8: Major Works, 1976-1980'', 1988. [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Selected_Writings_Vol_8_Major_Works_1976-1980.pdf|Download]].]]
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===
Jakobson's
Books,
Pamphlets and Collected Writings
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{{Bibliographic notice|English}}
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===Books,
pamphlets, selected writings
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* with Alexei Kruchenykh, [[Media:Kruchenykh_Alexei_Jakobson_Roman_Transrational_Boog.pdf|''Zaumnaya gniga'']] [Transrational Boog], Moscow, 1915, 21 leaves. A collection of [[zaum]] poetry. Two poems by Jakobson (pseudynym Aliagrov). With illustrations by [[Olga Rozanova]]. Although the cover reads 1916, the work was done in 1914 and appeared in August 1915. (in Russian)
* with Alexei Kruchenykh, [[Media:Kruchenykh_Alexei_Jakobson_Roman_Transrational_Boog.pdf|''Zaumnaya gniga'']] [Transrational Boog], Moscow, 1915, 21 leaves. A collection of [[zaum]] poetry. Two poems by Jakobson (pseudynym Aliagrov). With illustrations by [[Olga Rozanova]]. Although the cover reads 1916, the work was done in 1914 and appeared in August 1915. (in Russian)
* ''Новљйшая русская поезия. Nabrosok pervyi. Viktor Xlebnikov'' [Novejšaja russkaja poèzija], Prague: Tipografija, 1921, 68 pp. (in Russian) [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html#1921]
* ''Новљйшая русская поезия. Nabrosok pervyi. Viktor Xlebnikov'' [Novejšaja russkaja poèzija], Prague: Tipografija, 1921, 68 pp. (in Russian) [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html#1921]
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** ''[[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Formalnaja_skola_i_sovremennoe_russkoe_literaturovedenie.pdf|Формальная школа и современное русское литературоведение]]'' [Formal'naja škola i sovremennoe russkoe literaturovedenie], Moscow: Языки славянских культур, 2011, 280 pp. (in Russian)
** ''[[Media:Jakobson_Roman_Formalnaja_skola_i_sovremennoe_russkoe_literaturovedenie.pdf|Формальная школа и современное русское литературоведение]]'' [Formal'naja škola i sovremennoe russkoe literaturovedenie], Moscow: Языки славянских культур, 2011, 280 pp. (in Russian)
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===Selected
Articles
and
Papers by Jakobson
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===Selected
articles
and
papers
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* "N. N. Durnovo, N. N. Sokolov, D. N. Ušakov, Opyt dialektologičeskoj karty russkogo jazyka v Evrope", ''Etnografičeskoe obozrenie'' 109-110 (1916), pp 102-107. (in Russian)
* "N. N. Durnovo, N. N. Sokolov, D. N. Ušakov, Opyt dialektologičeskoj karty russkogo jazyka v Evrope", ''Etnografičeskoe obozrenie'' 109-110 (1916), pp 102-107. (in Russian)
* (signed with initials Р,Я), [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_1919_1987_Futurizm.pdf|"Futurizm"]] [Футуризм], ''Iskusstvo'' [Искусство] 7 (2 August 1919), Moscow: Narkompros; [http://books.google.com/books?id=wmkbXG7lj58C&pg=PA717 repr. in] ''Selected Writings 3'', 1981, pp 717-722; repr. in ''Raboty po poetike'', 1987, pp 414-420. (in Russian). Written in summer 1919 in Puškino on the river Kljaz'ma, where he was staying with [[Vladimir Mayakovsky|Mayakovsky]] and [[Osip Brik|Brik]]. [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html#1919] [http://www.booksshare.net/index.php?id1=4&category=literature&author=yakobson-r&book=1987&page=214]
* (signed with initials Р,Я), [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_1919_1987_Futurizm.pdf|"Futurizm"]] [Футуризм], ''Iskusstvo'' [Искусство] 7 (2 August 1919), Moscow: Narkompros; [http://books.google.com/books?id=wmkbXG7lj58C&pg=PA717 repr. in] ''Selected Writings 3'', 1981, pp 717-722; repr. in ''Raboty po poetike'', 1987, pp 414-420. (in Russian). Written in summer 1919 in Puškino on the river Kljaz'ma, where he was staying with [[Vladimir Mayakovsky|Mayakovsky]] and [[Osip Brik|Brik]]. [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html#1919] [http://www.booksshare.net/index.php?id1=4&category=literature&author=yakobson-r&book=1987&page=214]
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** "'Les Chats' di Charles Baudelaire", in ''Letteratura e strutturalismo'', ed. L. Rosiello, Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1974, pp 99-116. (in Italian)
** "'Les Chats' di Charles Baudelaire", in ''Letteratura e strutturalismo'', ed. L. Rosiello, Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1974, pp 99-116. (in Italian)
** "'Koški' Šarlja Bodlera", in ''Strukturalizm: „za" i "protiv"'', eds. E. Basin and M. Poljakov, Moscow: Progress, 1975, pp 231-254. (in Russian)
** "'Koški' Šarlja Bodlera", in ''Strukturalizm: „za" i "protiv"'', eds. E. Basin and M. Poljakov, Moscow: Progress, 1975, pp 231-254. (in Russian)
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* [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_1960_1971_Linguistics_and_Communication_Theory.pdf|"Linguistics and Communication Theory"]], in ''Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics'' XII, 1961; repr. in
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* [[Media:Jakobson_Roman_1960_1971_Linguistics_and_Communication_Theory.pdf|"Linguistics and Communication Theory"]], in ''Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics'' XII, 1961; repr. in ''Selected Writings, Vol. II: Word and Language'', Mouton, 1971, pp 570-579. Presented in the Symposium on Structure of Language and Its Mathematical Aspects, New York, 15 April 1960.
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''Selected Writings, Vol. II: Word and Language'', Mouton, 1971, pp 570-579. Presented in the Symposium on Structure of Language and Its Mathematical Aspects, New York, 15 April 1960.
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* "À la recherche de l'essence du langage", ''Diogène'' 51 (July—September 1965), pp 22-38. (in French). Address to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, February 10, 1965.
* "À la recherche de l'essence du langage", ''Diogène'' 51 (July—September 1965), pp 22-38. (in French). Address to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, February 10, 1965.
** "Quest for the Essence of Language", ''Diogenes'' 51 (1966), pp 21-37.
** "Quest for the Essence of Language", ''Diogenes'' 51 (1966), pp 21-37.
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* "Einstein and the Science of Language", in ''Einstein and Humanism (Selected Papers from the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium)'', New York: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1982, pp 129-144.
* "Einstein and the Science of Language", in ''Einstein and Humanism (Selected Papers from the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium)'', New York: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1982, pp 129-144.
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Books
and
Conference proceedings
on Jakobson===
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Bibliographies===
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* ''A Bibliography of the Publications of Roman Jakobson on Language, Literature
and
Culture'', Harvard University Press, 1951, pp (2) + 17 + (1).
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* "A Bibliography of the Publications of Roman Jakobson", in ''For Roman Jakobson. Essays
on
the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. 11 October 1956'', The Hague: Mouton, 1956, pp 1—12.
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* Cornelis Hendrik van Schooneveld, ''Roman
Jakobson
: A Bibliography of His Writings'', The Hague/Paris: Mouton, 1971.
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* Willard Bohn, "Roman Jakobson's Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy: An Annotated Bibliography", ''Style'' 18:4 (Fall 1984).
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* Stephen Rudy (ed.), ''Roman Jakobson, 1896-1982: a complete bibliography of his writings'', Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, 187 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xe91dWsNbyEC&pg=PA1]
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* [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html "Roman Jakobson: Bibliografie"], 2007. Based on Stephen Rudy's bibliography, 1990.
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==Literature==
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===Monographs and conference proceedings
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* Charles E. Gribble (ed.), ''Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students, Cambridge, MA: Slavica, 1968.
* Charles E. Gribble (ed.), ''Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students, Cambridge, MA: Slavica, 1968.
* Elmar Holenstein, ''Roman Jakobson's Approach to Language: Phenomenological Structuralism'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.
* Elmar Holenstein, ''Roman Jakobson's Approach to Language: Phenomenological Structuralism'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.
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** Bengt Jangfeldt, [http://www2.unil.ch/slav/ling/colloques/97JAK/Jangfeldt.pdf "Roman Jakobson in Sweden 1940-41"], pp 141-149.
** Bengt Jangfeldt, [http://www2.unil.ch/slav/ling/colloques/97JAK/Jangfeldt.pdf "Roman Jakobson in Sweden 1940-41"], pp 141-149.
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===Book chapters,
Papers
and
Articles on Jakobson
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===Book chapters,
papers
and
articles
(selection)===
* Jan Mukařovský, [http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2286 "Základy českého verše"], [http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2306 (cont.)], ''Naše řeč'', 10:6 and 10:7 (1926). Review. (Czech)
* Jan Mukařovský, [http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2286 "Základy českého verše"], [http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2306 (cont.)], ''Naše řeč'', 10:6 and 10:7 (1926). Review. (Czech)
* Elmar Holenstein, [http://www.pdcnet.org/8525737F0058880E/file/284BB98803D592ED852573A7006927AA/$FILE/ajs_1983_0002_0003_0027_0038.pdf "Five Jakobsonian Principles of Poetics"], ''American Journal of Semiotics'' 2:3 (1983), pp 23-34.
* Elmar Holenstein, [http://www.pdcnet.org/8525737F0058880E/file/284BB98803D592ED852573A7006927AA/$FILE/ajs_1983_0002_0003_0027_0038.pdf "Five Jakobsonian Principles of Poetics"], ''American Journal of Semiotics'' 2:3 (1983), pp 23-34.
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* Bregje Hofstede, [http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jan-mar/hofstede-jakobson-painting-and-poetry "Phonemes, Graphemes, Dabs of Paint: Roman Jakobson, the Russian avant-garde and the search for the shared basic elements of painting and poetry"], ''RIHA Journal'' 37 (12 March 2012).
* Bregje Hofstede, [http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jan-mar/hofstede-jakobson-painting-and-poetry "Phonemes, Graphemes, Dabs of Paint: Roman Jakobson, the Russian avant-garde and the search for the shared basic elements of painting and poetry"], ''RIHA Journal'' 37 (12 March 2012).
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===Theses
on Jakobson
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===Theses===
* Stephen Rudy, ''Jakobsonian Poetics of the Moscow and Prague Periods'', Yale University, 1978. Ph.D. Dissertation.
* Stephen Rudy, ''Jakobsonian Poetics of the Moscow and Prague Periods'', Yale University, 1978. Ph.D. Dissertation.
* Miles Spencer Kimball, ''[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkimball/pdf/linguistics-thesis.pdf Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy: A Comparison of the Work of Roman Jakobson and the Later Wittgenstein, With Some Attention to the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce]'', Birgham Young University, 1984, 190 pp. Master's thesis.
* Miles Spencer Kimball, ''[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkimball/pdf/linguistics-thesis.pdf Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy: A Comparison of the Work of Roman Jakobson and the Later Wittgenstein, With Some Attention to the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce]'', Birgham Young University, 1984, 190 pp. Master's thesis.
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===Bibliographies===
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* ''A Bibliography of the Publications of Roman Jakobson on Language, Literature and Culture'', Harvard University Press, 1951, pp (2) + 17 + (1).
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* "A Bibliography of the Publications of Roman Jakobson", in ''For Roman Jakobson. Essays on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. 11 October 1956'', The Hague: Mouton, 1956, pp 1—12.
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* Cornelis Hendrik van Schooneveld, ''Roman Jakobson: A Bibliography of His Writings'', The Hague/Paris: Mouton, 1971.
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* Willard Bohn, "Roman Jakobson's Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy: An Annotated Bibliography", ''Style'' 18:4 (Fall 1984).
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* Stephen Rudy (ed.), ''Roman Jakobson, 1896-1982: a complete bibliography of his writings'', Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, 187 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xe91dWsNbyEC&pg=PA1]
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* [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html "Roman Jakobson: Bibliografie"], 2007. Based on Stephen Rudy's bibliography, 1990.
==Film==
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* [[Russia#Avant-garde]]
* [[Russia#Avant-garde]]
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External links
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Links
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* [http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/zpravodajstvi-brno/extra/192007-exkluzivni-video-nevitany-vitany-svetovy-lingvista-roman-jakobson-v-brne/ Jakobson speeking in Brno], video, 8 min, 1968, in Czech.
* [http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/zpravodajstvi-brno/extra/192007-exkluzivni-video-nevitany-vitany-svetovy-lingvista-roman-jakobson-v-brne/ Jakobson speeking in Brno], video, 8 min, 1968, in Czech.
* [http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc72.html MIT Guide to the Papers of Roman Jakobson], with a brief chronology compiled by Stephen Rudy.
* [http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc72.html MIT Guide to the Papers of Roman Jakobson], with a brief chronology compiled by Stephen Rudy.