Role społeczne uczonych. Roman Jakobson i Polacy
The Social Roles of Scholars: Roman Jakobson and the Poles

Summary/Abstract: 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, diariesand journals, it can be neither edited nor replaced. Material supporting this argumentconsists of the corpus of the correspondence of Roman Jakobson and Maria RenataMayenowa, as well as letters exchanged between Jakobson and Polish literary scholarsin the interwar and postwar years. They reveal the backstage history of theoreticalpoetics and other forms of literary scholarship, including most importantly the enduringpenfriendships that were forged in the 1930s across disciplines and national borders andthat impacted emerging concepts.

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