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...society's every phenomenon and event is a text inviting interpretation, an opportunity for writing oneself into the margins of the scene as reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson...
Part Two, "Understanding the Meaning of Signs" is a retrospective glance at semiotics' coming-to-consciousness. One has Jakobson's ode "Dear Claude, Cher Maitre," addressed to the father of structuralism, Levi-Strauss, and Jacques Derrida's "To Speculate-On 'Freud,"' acknowledging semiotics's intertextual as well as interdisciplinary legacy...
Fleening the Nazi occupation. Jakobson went first to Sweden and then to the United States, becoming a professor at Columbia University (1946-1949). Harvard (1949-1967) and finally MIT (1957-1982). While at Columbia and Harvard, Jakobson worked on a defence of the authenticity of the Old Russian epic. "The Igor Tale...
...professor Paul Klpersky, who will speak at the symposium, yesterday lauded Jakobson for his work in potics and phonology which Klparsky called "largely instrument in defining the field of linguistics...
Watkins praised Jakobson's efforts in "his quest for the essence of language," adding, "If the term genius means anything Jakobson was a genius...