Role społeczne uczonych. Roman Jakobson i Polacy

Ulicka explores the status of the archival source (“the hard fact”) in intellectual history. She demonstrates that only the letter is such a “fact,” since, in contrast to memoirs, diaries and journals, it can be neither edited nor replaced. Material supporting this argument consists of the corpus of the correspondence of Roman Jakobson and Maria Renata Mayenowa, as well as letters exchanged between Jakobson and Polish literary scholars in the interwar and postwar years. They reveal the backstage history of theoretical poetics and other forms of literary scholarship, including most importantly the enduring penfriendships that were forged in the 1930s across disciplines and national borders and that impacted emerging concepts

Physics · Theology · Central European Literary Studies · Language and Culture · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies