Language, Poetry and Poetics: The Generation of the 1890s: Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij. Proceedings of the First Roman Jakobson Colloquium, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 5–6, 1984

Foreword\nWelcoming Remarks\n1. JAKOBSON, TRUBETZKOY, MAJAKOVSKIJ\n“The Autobiography of a Scholar”\n“Jakobson’s and Trubetzkoy’s Philosophical Background\n“Majakovskij’s ‘How to Make Verses’ and Jakobson’s Theory of Verse”\n“The Ideological Principles of Prague School Phonology”\n2. JAKOBSON’S LINGUISTIC THEORY\n“The Major Moments of Jakobson’s Linguistics”\n“Remarks on the Scientific Revolution in Linguistics 1926 — 1929”\n“Roman Jakobson on Gender and Linguistic Fictions”\n“Linguistic Structure and Autopoiesis”\n“Roman Jakobson and his Contemporaries on Change in Language and Literature (The Teleological Criterion)”\n“On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy”\n3. JAKOBSON’S THEORY OF GRAMMAR AND ITS APPLICATION\n“Jakobsonian Markedness Theory as Mathematical Principle”\n“Jakobson’s Cube as Objet d’Art and as Scientific Model”\n4. JAKOBSON’S POETICS\n“Roman Jakobson: The Unity of his Thought on Verbal Art”\n“The Aesthetic Semiotics of Roman Jakobson”\n5. JAKOBSON’S POETIC LABORATORY\n“Jakobson–Aljagrov and Futurism”\n“Jakobson as Poet: Pre–figure of a Linguist”\n6. TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF JAKOBSON’S INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES\n“Sociological Concerns in the Moscow Linguistic Circle”\n“A Marvellous Chemical Laboratory and its Deeper Meaning: Notes on Roman Jakobson and the Czech Avant-Garde Between the Two Wars”\nReferences\nIndex