Jakobson Roman

Jakobson, Roman, Linguistic Aspects of Translation , in On Translation, ed. by Reuben A. Brower (Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 1959), pp. 232-243. 

Jakobson, Roman, Language in Literature, ed. Kristina Pomorska and Stephen Rudy (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1987). 

R. Gordon Wasson, "Lightning Bolt and Mushrooms, An Essay in Early Cultural Exploration," in Roman Jakobson Essays on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, The Hague, Mouton Co., 1956, p. 610. 

Thus the term translation will be taken in a wide sense, encompassing a range of forms of derivative writings (that is to say texts created through the rewriting of an earlier text), an approach largely influenced by Roman Jakobson s seminal On Linguistic Aspects of Translation .17 Jakobson defines three types of translation ... 

Roman Jakobson, On Linguistic Aspects of Translation , p. 233. We can note in passing Jakobson s use of the term transmutation which has clear alchemical connotations and echoes, therefore, Baudelaire s amalgam through translation. 

Roman Jakobson to Vladimir Maiakovskii, Prague, February 8, 1921, fond 336/5/119, RGALI, Moscow. 

Stalinist years, the nation s greatest writers were cleansed and re-canonized in manic, state-sponsored Jubilees (the centennial of Tolstoy s birth in 1928, of Pushkin s death in 1937). Such cults could also develop around Russian critics. When Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), in voluntary exile since 1920, was permitted to re-visit his birthplace in 1956, he was received rapturously - as a structural linguist, certainly, but even more as a celebrity, a thinker who had returned to Russia from the land of the dead, proving that Russia was not dead to the rest of the world. 

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