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IRENE PORTIS-WINNER AND THOMAS G. WINNER; PARTNERS IN THE SEARCH FOR SEMIOTICS

Tom and I had a lifelong partnership and very sadly Tom died in April 2004 but I am continuing our work and a close colleague, Joseph Rotinsky is completing Tom’s interrupted book on the CZECH AVANT-GUARD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS.

As a semiotic anthropologist my work was complimented by Tom’s in Slavic poetics and comparative literature.

How did we come to semiotics? I was searching. for a discipline that was both theoretical and powerful and alive involving real peoples and how they lived. When I left Radcliff I came to anthropology encouraged by my close friend, Ruth Benedict, and Tom also wished to find a theoretical basis to conceptualize poetics beyond close reading and formalism and we explored the concepts semiotically oriented we found so tantalizing.

We both went to Columbia graduate school. Roman Jakobson made a great impression on us with his call for poetics and linguistics to be one discipline and with his strong support forth greatest worker in semiotics, the much neglected Charles Sanders Peirce. Tom met Lotman in Moscow whose works he was able to bring to Michigan to begin a series of his studies published in Michigan. This led to other Russian writers like Bakhtin and Toporov and Czech sch0lars, as Mukarovsky. We felt we had discovered some new handles to the understanding of meaning and communication of signs in all domains with Peirce’s doctrine of signs and Jakobson, metonymic metaphors, and Lotman’ profound renaissance mind as he delved into mythology, world views and oppositions such as order verses chaos, inside outside and developed the field he called semiotics of culture which would help to conceptualize different cultural perceptions of time and space.

Together we collaborated in the exploring of this new and exciting world. I engaged in fieldwork in Slovene village,,the first book only hinting at the new approach to peasant studies inspired by work of the founder of modern peasant studies, Erich Wolf. The fieldwork was a family project. My husband’s linguistic knowledge was very valuable and my daughter , Ellen, was the artist who drew many detailed maps and houses and people while my youger daughter followed the young member’s children to the fields and to the spring that fed the village river, Ellen attended the local school for several months and both found a way to communicate with the village children

My first book about the village only hinted at the new

Semiotic approaches to peasant studies. I soon realized that I was only studying half of the village way of life, since from 1890 migrant from the village began setting in Cleveland and the diaspora community kept up a close relation with the homeland and by remissions sent home, no matter how difficult, saved the village from abject poverty. I resolved to write a second study encompassing the new two communites within a semiotic framework. And again with the help of my husband I began an urban study and also revsited the village since Slovenia had obtained independence,

Our life was one of frequent travel to learned conferences and meetings with scholars in Prague, Bruno, Warsaw, Moscow, Hungary Yugoslavai, Finland and France.as we explored the concepts we found so tantalizing, As Peirce wrote, the world is profuse with signs, and this means in all modes, and conscious as well as subliminal. We came to understand culture as communication and meaning in a dynamic framework including

its relation to other cultures and its history. We found that memory was a powerful force and the past ways were hardly forgotten. How to decode meanings both in literature and poetics, and in village socierty often revealed isubtle images, which became the overriding task.

What semiotic concepts can be fruitfully applied? The past, future and present are all relevant as well as concepts of space. Remembering Peirce’s fallabilism, comparative world views and depictions of reality need not lead to total relativism or to helpless determinism or reduction.. The constant growth of semiotic theory and its applications to all human behavior and thought and events and rituals etc.and not separating art from science, lead to understanding reality as dynamic and changing.

At this time I am working on a project I call “Trends in contemporary American Anthropology and why we Need Semiotics of Culture.” I am also helping to completes Tom’s book



IRENE PORTIS-WINNER

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

A. Books and Monographs

1. A Slovenian Village: Zerovnica. Providence, R.I.:
Brown University Press, 1971.

2. The Peasant and the City. An Historical Perspective. Report on an International Symposium held at Brown University, Providence, 1974. Limited Distribution.

3. Interdisciplinary National Survey of the Status of East European Studies. Cambridge, MA. Study commissioned by American Council of Learned Societies. Limited Distribution, 1976.

4. The State of the Arts of Semiotics of Culture. Position paper commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies. Cambridge, MA, 1978. Limited Distribution.

5. Semiotics of Culture. Special Issue of Semiotica, vol.27 1/3. As editor (with Jean Umiker Sebeok), 1979.

6. Semiotics of Culture. Paris The Hague. Mouton. (Approaches to Semiotics). 292 pp. (Republication of #5), 1979.

7. The State of the Art of Semiotics of Culture. Revised and expanded edition of #4). Cambridge, MA, 1979. Limited distribution.

8. Semiotics of Culture: The State of the Art. Toronto Semiotic Circle. Monographs, Working Papers and Prepublications. Toronto. Victoria University. 1982. (Extended and revised version of # 4).

9. The Dynamics of East European Ethnicity Outside of Eastern Europe: With Special Emphasis on the American Case. (As Editor with introduction). Cambridge, MA. Schenkman. 1983.

10. The Peasant and the City in Eastern Europe: Changing Socioeconomic Structures and Symbolic Levels of Culture. (As editor with T.G. Winner). Cambridge, MA. Schenkman. 1984.

11. Semiotics of Culture. "The Strange Intruder". Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum Press (BPX. Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics). Vol. 5. 1994.

12. Peasants in Transition: The Semiotics of Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1999.

B. Articles and Reviews

13. Some Problems of Nomadism and Social Organization of the Kazakhs of Soviet Central Asia: Part One. Central Asian Review. XI, No. 3:246 247. London. 1963.

14. Some Problems of Nomadism and Social Organization of the Kazakhs of Soviet Central Asia: Part Two. Central Asian Review. XI, No. 4:355 373. London. 1963.

15. Selo i op ina. Primjer jednoga slovenskogo sela (The Village and the Commune. The Example of a Slovene Village), Sociologija sela. X, Nos. 35 36. Zagreb. 113 120. 1972.

16. Review of E. Fél and T. Hofer, Proper Peasants; and R. Cresswell, Une communeauté de l'Irelande. Current Anthropology 13, Nos. 3 4, 493, 1972.

17. Review of East European Quarterly. American Anthropologist 74:1411. 1972. 1973.

18. Research Opportunities for Slovene Studies in Anthropology. Society for Slovene Studies Newsletter, No. 3, pp. 2 3. 1974.

19. Studia nad spoleczno ciami ch opskimi w antropologii amerika skiej (Peasant Studies in American Anthropology). Etnografia Polska. Warsaw. XVIII, 2:129 144. 1974.

20. Review article Recent Studies of Polish Peasantry. R. Turski, ed. Les transformations de la campagne polonaise. East Central Europe, 1, 1:90 94. 1974.

21. Review of G. Balandier, Sens et Puissance: Les Dynamiques Sociales. American Anthropologist. 77:345 347. 1975.

22. Review of J. and B. Halpern, A Serbian Village in Historical Perspective. Canadian American Slavic Studies 9:415 416. 1975.

23. The Semiotics of Cultural Texts. Semiotica 18:101 156.(with T.G. Winner). 1976.

24. Review of J. Duvignaud, Le langage perdu: essai sur la difference anthropologique. American Anthropologist. 78:648.
1976.

25. Review of W. Kula, et al., eds.; Listy Emigrantów z Brazilii i Stanów Zjednoczonych. The Journal of Peasant Studies 3:352 359, London. 1976.

26. The Question of the Zadruga in Slovenia: Myth and Reality in erovnica. Anthropological Quarterly, 50:125 34. 1977.

27. The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function As Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle. InW.C. McCormack and S. A. Wurm, eds., Language and Thought, Anthropological Issues, World Anthropology. Paris The Hague. Mouton. Pp. 407 440. 1977.

28. Bunka kigoron nyumon, Gendai Siso, 6. Pp. 110 170. Tokyo. (Japanese translation of #23) (with T. G. Winner). 1978.

29. Review of R. Byrnes, ed., Communal Families in the Balkans: The Zadruga. South Eastern Europe 5:107 110. 1978.

30. Cultural Semiotics and Anthropology. IN The Sign. Semiotics Around the World, edited by R. W. Bailey, L. Matejka and P. Steiner. (=Michigan Slavic Publications). Ann Arbor. Pp. 335 63. 1978.

31. Ethnicity Among Urban Slovene Villagers in Cleveland, Ohio. Papers in Slovene Studies 1977, edited by R. M. Susel. New York. Pp. 61 63. 1978.

32. The Question of Cultural Point of View in Determining Boun daries of Ethnic Units: Slovene Villagers in Cleveland. Papers in Slovene Studies 1977, edited by R. M. Susel. New York. Pp. 73 82. 1978.

33. Review of M. Molek, Immigrant Woman. Society for Slovene Studies Newsletter No. 11; Pp. 5 6. 1978.

34. Ethnicity, Modernity, and the Theory of Culture Texts. IN #5 and 6. Pp. 103 47. 1979.

35. Review of J. Obrebski, The Changing Peasantry of Eastern Europe. East Central Europe. 1979.

36. Preliminary Position Paper: Semiotics of Culture, the State of the Art. Proceedings of Conference on Semiotic Terminology. Budapest. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1979.

37. Semiotyka kultury i etnografia. (Semiotics of Culture and Ethnography). IN Semiotyka kultury, edited by Urzula Niklas. Warsaw (PIW). Polish translation of #30. 1979.

38. Review of Kme ko gospodarstvo na Slovenskem (Peasant Economy in Slovenia), M. Makarovi , Slovene Studies, 1980.

39. Review of Fantasy and Symbol, edited by R. H. Hook. American Journal of Semiotics. Vol. 1, No. 3 Pp.112 114. 1982.

40. Review of Symbols and Sentiments by Joan Lewis. American Anthropologist. Vol. 84, No. 1. Pp. 207 208. 1982.

41. Some Comments on the Concept of the Human Sign. Visual and Verbal Components and Applications to Ethnic Research: A Wonderful Father. IN Signs in the Field, edited by Michael Herzfeld. Special issue of Semiotica 46 2/4:263-85. 1983.

42. Ethnicity and Communication. Slovene Studies. Vol. 3:119-126. 1983.

43. Lotman and Semiotics of Culture. IN Semiosis. In Honorem Georgi Lotman. Edited by Morris Halle et al. Ann Arbor, Michigan (Studies in the Humanities). Pp.28 36. 1984.

44. Theories of Narration and Ethnic Culture Texts. In Sign, System and Function. Proceedings of the First and Second Polish American Semiotics Colloquia. Edited by J. Pelc, T. A. Sebeok, E. Stankiewics and T. G. Winner. Berlin New York Amsterdam. Mouton. Pp.439 455. 1984.

45. Review of Studies in Ethnicity, edited by Charles Ward. Canadian American Slavic Review. Pp. 235 37. Spring 1984.

46. Semiotics of Culture. IN Frontiers of Semiotics. Edited by John Deely, Brooke Williams, and Felicia E. Kruse. Pp. 181 184. Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 1986.

47. Cultural Semiotics vs. Other Cultural Sciences. In A Plea for Cultural Semiotics. Edited by Achim Eschbach and Walter Koch. (=Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 2) Pp. 4-22. 1987.

48. Metonymic Metaphors and Ethnicity: Slovenes in Cleveland. In Lubi Slovenci. A Festschrift to Honor Rado L. Lencek. Edited by T. M. S. Priestly, O. B. Nedeljkovic and H. R. Cooper, Jr. Slovene Studies, 9/1 2. Pp.243-251. 1987.

49. Ethnic Culture Texts as Narration. IN Literary Anthropology. Edited by Fernando Poyatos. Amsterdam-Philadelphia (John Benjamins) Pp.127-140. 1988.

50. Review of The Homemade World of Zagaj by Robert Minnich. Bergen, Norway. (University of Bergen Skriftserie. No.18). Slovene Studies. 10:94-96. 1988.

51. Review of Rise From Want. A Peasant Family In The Machine Age. By James C. Davis. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1986. Slovene Studies. 10:109-111. 1988.

52. Culture and Semiotics. Perspectives for the Future of a Potential Discipline. IN Culture and Semiotics. Edited by Walter A. Koch. Bochum (Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 7). Pp.72-84. 1989.

53. Report on Research in Semiotics of Culture. In The Semiotic Web. A Yearbook of Semiotics. Edited by T.A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker Sebeok. Volume for 1987. Pp.601-636. 1988.

54. The Human Sign as an Integrative Concept in the Semiotics of Culture. IN The Nature of Culture: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium. October 7-11, 1986. Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. Edited by Walter A. Koch. (=Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 12). Pp.369-387. 1989.

55. Segmentation and Reconstruction of Ethnic Culture Texts and the Interpenetration of the Verbal and Visual Spheres. In Issues in Slavic Literary and Cultural Theory. Karl Eimermacher, Peter Grzybek, Georg Witte, eds. Bochum (=Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics 21). Pp.411-31. 1989.

56. Anthropology and Semiotics. In Semiotics in the Individual Sciences. Part II. Edited by Walter Koch. (=Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics. vol. 11). Pp. 619-648.
Bochum 1990.

57. How Ethnic Texts Speak. In Semiotics and the Arts: Festschrift for Thomas G. Winner. Edited by A. Mandelker, L. Matejka, R. Posner, and E. Stankiewicz. San Diego. Charles Schlacks. Pp. 173-187. 1990.

58.Lidský znak: neverbální komponenty. (The Human Sign: Nonverbal Components). Opus Musicum. Brno, Czechoslovakia. 1991.

59. Ch op rolnik jako cz owiek-znak. (A Peasant/Farmer As A Human Sign). Studia semiotyczne (Warsaw, Poland). 1991. Pp.174-89.

60. Semiotika kultury: Moderní dilema (Semiotics of Culture: A Modern Dilema). Zprávy antropologické spole nosti. Prague, Czech Republic. No. 3, 1992.

61. "The Semiotics of Law: An Anthropological Approach. IN Semiotics and the Human Sciences. Roberta Kevelson, ed., Bern (Peter Lang). 1992.

62. Transnationals and the Human Sign. In Signs of Humanity / L' homme et ses signes. Edited by Michel Balat and Janice Deledalle Rhodes. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. 1992. III:1611-1616.

63. Transnationals and the Human Sign: Modes of Signification. Kultur - Evolution. Fallstudien und Synthese, ed. by M. Posner-Landsch, H. Karnowski, and I. Byst ina. Bern (Peter Lang). 1993.

64. Intensívní dialog mezi Jakobsonem a Peircem (The Intense Dialogue Between Jakobson and Peirce). Estetika. Prague, Czech Republic. 1993.

65. Krize znázorn ní v dnešním kulturním bádání. (The Crisis of Representation in Cultural Studies Today). Host. Brno, Czech Republic. 1993.

66. The Slovenes. State of the Peoples 1993. A Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. Cultural Survival. Cambridge, MA (Beacon Press). 1993.

67. Cultural Survey of the Slovenes. In Encyclopedia of World Culture. Vol. 6: Europe and the Middle East. Edited by David Levinson. (=Human Relations Area File). New Haven (Yale University 1993.

68. Peirce, Bogatyrev, Saussure a estetická funkce. Estetika. Prague. 1993. (Translation of #70).

69. Bakhtin and Contemporary Anthropology: American Voices. Elementa. 1995. (In press).

70. Peirce, Bogatyrev, Saussure, and the Aesthetic Function. In Peirce and Value Theory. On Peircean Ethics and Aesthetics. Edited by Herman Parret. Amsterdam-Philadelphia (John Benjamins). 1994.

71. Jakobson's Poetics: Its Relation to Peirce, and Its Influence on American Anthropology. Litteraria humanitas. III. Brno, Czech Republic. 1995. (in print).

72. A Slovene Peasant Village and Its Slovene-American Ethnic Counterpart. Application of Semiotic and Structuralist Theory (Prague, Moscow-Tartu, Peirce). Structuralism. Papers Presented at the International Congress on Structuralist Theories. Dresden, April 1995). Dresden: Verlag Technische Universitat Dresden. (1996 in press).

73. An Overview of Semiotics of Culture from the 1930s to the Mid-1970s. Historicni seminar. Ed. Oto Luthar. Znanstvenno-raziskovalni Center, SAZU. Ljubljana 1996).

74. Entry: Slovenes. Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Cultures. New York: MacMillan 1996.

75. Jakobson's World: His Dialogue With Peirce. Implications for American Anthropology.Litteraria humanitas IV, Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty Brn nské University. 1996.

76. Lotman's Semiosphere. Some Comments. IN In the World of Signs. Essays in Honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc. Edited by Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and Witold S awi ski. Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA. 1994.

77. Does the Image Sparkle? Bakhtin and Contemporary American Studies of Culture. Elementa. Vol 4. Pp. 17-46, 1998.

78. The Semiotics of Transnationalism and the Human Sign. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies. Revised version of paper presented in symposium "Theory and Methodology of Fieldwork: New Ages....Trends, Concepts, Conceptualizations and Praxis. August 1998. (In Press) University of the Aegean Press. Athens, Greece.

79. Social structure and freedom: The semiotic study of cultures. In Press

80. Eric Wolf: Power - A Semiotic Exploration. European Journal for Semiotic Studies, In Press.


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS


Thomas G. Winner

I.

Books
1. Kazakh Literature and Oral Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 1958.

2. Chekhov and His Prose. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.

3. Editor, foreword: Lotman, Iu.M. Lektsii po struktural'noi poetike. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Slavic Reprint V,
1968.

4. Editor, foreword: Jakobson, Roman. O cheshskom stikhe,preimushchestvenno v sopostavlenii s russkim. Providence. R.I.: Brown University Slavic Reprints VI.

5. Editor, foreword: Aldanov,Mark., Zagadka Tolstogo. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Slavic Reprints, VII. 1969.

6. Editor, foreword: Gershenzon, M. O.Mechta i mysl' I.S.Turgeneva, Providence, R.I. Brown University Slavic Reprints VIII. 1970.

7. Editor, foreword: Lotman, Jurij M. Struktura khudozhestvennogo teksta, Providence, R.I. Brown University Slavic Reprint IX. 1971.

8. Editor, foreword: Tvorcheskie raboty uchenikov Tolstogo v Yasnoi Poljane. Providence, R.I.:Brown University Slavic Reprint X. 1974.

9. With Irene Portis Winner, as editor: The Peasant and the City: Interpenetrating Structures, Cambridge, MA: Schenkman. 1984.

10. With J. Pelc, E. Stankiewicz, and T. A. Sebeok, as editor: Sign, System, and Function: Proceedings of the First and Second Polish American Colloquia. Paris The Hague: Mouton. 1984.

11. Editor, foreword: Slavic and Byzantinological Studies in Honor of Antonin Dostal. Byzantine Studies, 8,11,12 (1981,1984, 1985).

II. Articles and Reviews

1947

12. "Kazakh Literature and Oral Art of the Nineteeth Century:Reflections of Russian Rule." American Review of the Soviet Union, 8, No. 2, pp. 57 72.

1948

13. Collaborator: "Sinkiang Survey." Far Eastern Survey, 17, No. 5, pp. 53 63.

14. Review: Tatyana A. Kuzminskaya, Tolstoy as I Knew Him: My Life at Home and at Yasnaya Polyana. New York: MacMillan 1948. South Atlantic Quarterly, 48, No. 3.

1950

15. Contributor. Owen Lattimore et al., Pivot of Asia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

16. "The Kazakh Heroic Epos," Royal Central Asian Journal, (London) 38, p. IV, pp. 280 91.

17. Review: Harriet Borland. Soviet Literary Theory. New York: King's Crown Press,1950. South Atlantic Quarterly.

18. Review: Marc Slonim. The Epic of Russian Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950, South Atlantic Quarterly.

19. Review: Derk Bodde. Tolstoy and China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. South Atlantic Quarterly.

20. Review: Leonid I. Strakhovsky. Craftsmen of the Word: Three Poets of Modern Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. South Atlantic Quarterly.

21. Review: D. S. Mirsky. A History of Russian Literature. Edited and abridged by Francis J. Whitfield. New York: Knopf 1949. South Atlantic Quarterly. 50, No. 2.

22. Review: Ludmilla Turkevich. Cervantes in Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. South Atlantic Quarterly, 50, No. 2.

1952


23. "Problems of Alphabetic Reform Among the Turkic Peoples of Soviet Central Asia." Slavonic and East European Review, London, 31, No. 76, pp. 133 47.

24.Review: Vladimir Nabokov, Conclusive Evidence. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1951. South Atlantic Quarterly.

25.Review: The Tolstoy Home. Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotin Tolstoy. Translated by Alec Brown. London: Harvill Press, 1951. South Atlantic Quarterly.

26 Review: B. V. Varneke, History of the Russian Theatre. New York: MacMillan, 1951. South Atlantic Quarterly.

1953

27. Editor and Compiler. Slavonic and East European Sections of "Bibliography of Comparative Literature." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. No. 2.Chapel Hill, NC:University of North Carolina Press.

28."The Soviet Nationality Problem" (Review article). Royal Geographical Journal (London), 130, p. I, pp. 97 99. 1953.

29. Review: Clarence A. Manning. Anthology of Eighteenth Century Russian Literature. Vol, II, New York: King's Crown Press, 1953. South Atlantic Quarterly.

1954

30. Translator: Alexander Puskin. "The History of the Village of Goriukhino." Russian Review, 13 (April), pp. 120 36.

31. Editor and Compilor: Slavonic and East European Sections of "Bibliography of Comparative Literature," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. No. 3. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press.

32. Review: Marc Slonim. Modern Russian Literature, New York:Oxford University Press. 1953. South Atlantic Quarterly.

1955

33. Review: V. V. Zenkovsky. A History or Russian Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press. 1953. The Southern Philosopher, 4, No. 1.1955.

34. Review: Boris Zajcev. Chekhov, Literaturnaja biografija., New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1954. American Slavic and East European Review, 13.

35. Review: L. A. Kovarskaja. Russkie pisateli. New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1955. Slavic and East European Journal, 14.

1956

36. "Chekhov's Seagull and Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Study of a Dramatic Device." American Slavic and East European Review, 15 (January).

1958

37. Review: W. H. Bruford. Anton Chekhov., New Haven: Yale University Press. 1957. Slavic and East European Review, 16, No. 1.

1959

38. "Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and Tolstoyan Ethics." Slavic and East European Journal, 17, No. 3 (December).

1960

39. " exov v Soedinnenyx Štatax Ameriki," (Chekhov in the United States). In Anton exov, Literaturnoe Nasledstvo, vol. 68, Moscow: Akademiia nauk. Pp. 777 800.

40. "Chekhov and Scientism: Reflections on the Searching Stories." in T. Eekman, ed. Anton Chekhov; Some Essays. Leiden (Holland): E.J. Brill, Pp. 325 55.

1960

41. "The exov Centennial Productions in the Moscow Theaters." Slavic and East European Journal, 5, pp. 255 62.

1962

42. Editor: "Dostoevskij and Romantic Aesthetics." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 11, pp.36 39.

43. Review: Richard Hare. Portraits of Russian Personalities Between Reform and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press,1959. Slavic Review, 21, No.2 (June). Pp. 350 51.

44. Review: Renato Poggioli. The Poets of Russia. 1890 1930.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960. Books Abroad, Spring.


45. Review: George Gibian. Interval of Freedom: Soviet Literature During the Thaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1960. Books Abroad, Spring.

46. Review: Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Literature Under Communism: The Literary Policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the End of World War II to the Death of Stalin.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960. Books Abroad, Spring 1962.

1963

47. "Theme and Structure in Chekhov's Betrothed." Indiana SlavicStudies. 3, pp. 162 71.

48. "Myth as a Literary Device in the Works of Chekhov." In B. Slote, ed. Myth and Symbol, Critical Approaches and Applications. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 71 78.

49. Review: M. Friedberg, Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Russian Review, 22.

1964

50. "Speech Characterization in Chekhov's Ivanov and apek's Loupe ník" American Contributions to the Fifth International Congress of Slavists, Vol. II. The Hague: Mouton.

51. Review: Anton Chekhov, Late Blooming Flowers and Other Stories. Translated by I. D. Chertok and Jean Gardner. New York, Toronto and London: McGraw Hill Co., 1964. Slavic Review, 24, No.1, pp.152 53.

1966

52. Entry: "Anton Chekhov." Encyclopedia of World Literature, Vol. 1. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

53. Review: Chekhov, the Major Plays. Ann Dunnigan, tr. Signet Classic, Slavic and East European Jorunal, 10 No.3. Pp.343 47.
1967

54. "Setting in Cechov's Prose." in A. P. udakov, ed. O exove. Sbornik statej. Moscow, Academy of Sciences. Publication scheduled for 1967, but publication was prevented.

1969

55. "Some Remarks About the Style of Bunin's Early Prose." In W. E. Harkins, ed. American Contributions to the Sixth International Congress of Slavists., Vol. II. The Hague: Mouton.

56. Review: Maurice Valency, The Breaking String, The Plays of Anton Chekhov. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966, Slavic and East European Journal, 12, No 1. Pp.79 82.

57. Review: T. K. Šax Arizova, exov i zapadnoevropejskaja drama ego vremeni. Moscow: Nauka, 1966, Slavic and East European Journal, 12, No. 1, pp.79 82.

58. Review: Peter Bicilli, Anton Chekhov. München: Fink Verlag,1966, Slavic and East European Journal, 12, No. 1, pp.79 82.
1971

59. "`Mewa' Czechowa a `Hamlet' Szekspira badanie chwytów dramatycznych." In Rene Sliwowski, ed. Czechow w oczach kritiki wiatowej. Warsaw: PIW, 1971. Pp. 233 48. Polish translation of No. 36.

60. Review: Chekhov, A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Robert L. Jackson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1967. Slavic Review, 30, No. 1, pp.205 08.

61. Review: The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin by Anton Chekhov. translated by Luba and Michael Terpak. New York: Washington Square Press, 1967. Slavic Review, 30, No.1, pp.205 08.

1972

62. "Estetika i poetika praškog lingvisti kog kruga." Umjetnost rije i (Zagreb), 16, Nos. 2 3, pp. 137 54. (Croatian translation of No. 67).

1973

63. "The Creative Personality As Viewed by the Prague Linguistic Circle: Theories and Implications." In American Contributions to the Seventh International Congress of Slavists. Vol. 1. The Hague: Mouton, pp.361 76

64. "The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Prague Linguistic Circle. Poetics (The Hague), 8, pp.77 96.


Irene Portis-Winner

SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND FREEDOM



Thomas G. Winner, 1917-2004


Semiotics of Peasants in Transition: Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America

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65. "Czech Avantgarde Prose of the Sixties." Mosaic (Winnipeg), 6: The Eastern European Imagination in Literature, pp.107 19.

66. "`Glaubst zu schieben und wirst geschoben'" Some Observations About Tolstoy's Experiments with Children's Writing." In Slavic Poetics in Honor of Kiril Tarnovsky, edited by Roman Jakobson, C. H. van Schooneveld and Dean S. Worth. The Hague Paris: Mouton. Pp. 507 24.

67. "Some Remarks About the Art of Ladislav Fuks." Richerche slavistiche (Rome), In Memoriam Giovanni Maver, 18 19, pp. 587 99.

68. Review: The Oxford Chekhov. Translated and edited by Ronald Hingley. London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press. Vols. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. Slavic Review 332, No. 3.pp.659 61.

69. Review: Chekhov in Performance. A Commentary on the Major Plays. By J. L. Styan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1971, Russian Review, 31, No. 3, pp.326 27.

70. Review: Tolstoy and Chekhov, by Logan Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The Modern Language Journal, No.62, pp.440 41.1974

71. Translator, C. Malevitch. Suprematism. Lausanne: Editions des Massons.1975

72. "Grands themes de la poétique jakobsonienne." L'Arc (Paris) No. 60: Roman Jakobson; sémiologie, poétique, épistemologie, pp.55 63.

73. "Poetika in semiotika Romana Jakobsona." Slavisti na revija. Ljubljana (Yugoslavia), 24, No. 1. (Slovene translation of No. 75).1976

74. (With Irene Portis Winner) "The Semiotics of Cultural Texts. Semiotica, 18, No.2, pp. 101 156.

75. "Poetika praškoj školy i suvremenna semiotika." Matica srpska, Novi Sad (Yugoslavia).

76. "Genre Theory in the Light of Structural Poetics and Semiotics." The Yearbook of Comparative Criticism. 8: Theories of Literary Genres.


77. "Jan Muka ovský: The Beginnings of Structural and Semiotic Aesthetics." In Sound, Sign, and Meaning: Quinquageneri of the Prague Linguistic Circle. Edited by Ladislav Matejka. Ann Arbor, Michigan Slavic Contributions. October.1977

78. "The Semiotics of Texts and Its Applications to Contemporary Poetics." In Studies in Linguistics and Poetics for James Ferrell. Edited by Benjamin Stolz. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

79. With John Kasik. "René Wellek's Contribution to American Literary Scholarship." Forum at Iowa, Iowa City, spring.

80. "Chekhov's Seagull and Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Study of a Dramatic Device." Reprint of No. 36 in Anton Chekhov's Plays. New York: W. W. Norton.

81. "The Poetics of Roman Jakobson." In Actes du Colloque: La France devant les Slaves: Histoire et Théorie littéraires. UER de littérature génerale et comparée. Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Pp. 133 39.

82. "O dekodiranju umetni kih tekstova." Letopis Matice Srpske, Novi Sad. 419, No. 4 (April). Serbian transl. of No. 90.1978

83. "Bunka kigoron nyumon" (with Irene Portis Winner). Gendai Siso (Tokyo). No. 6, pp. 110 70. Japanese translation of No. 77.

84. "Roman Jakobson and Avant garde Art." In Roman Jakobson: Echoes of His Scholarship. edited by C. van Schooneveld and Daniel Armstrong. Lisse: P. de Ridder Press.

85. "Syncretism in Chekhov's Art." Chekhov's Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Paul Debreczeny and Thomas Eekman. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica.

86. "Chekhov's Seagull." In Major Modern Dramatists. New York: Frederick Ungar.

87. "On the Relation of the Verbal and the Non Verbal Arts in Early Prague Semiotics." In The Sign, Semiotics Around the World. Edited by R. W. Bailey, L. Matejka, P. Steiner. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 227 37.

88. The Field(s) of Semiotics. RIFLA Gazette, N. S., 2, No. 3 (Summer).1979

89. "The Evaluation of Some Fundamental Concepts Leading to a Semiotics of Culture: An Historical Overview." In Semiotica. Edited by Irene Portis Winner and Jean Umiker Sebeok. Pp. 75 82.

90. "On the Decoding of Esthetic Texts." Studie semiotyczne. 9. Pp. 43 62, Warsaw, Poland.

91. "Jan Muka ovský: The Beginnings of Structural Poetics and Semiotics." In Forum Linguisticum, Language, Literature and Meaning I: Problems of Literary Theory. Edited by John Odmark. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. Pp. 1 34.

1980

92. "Czech Poetics of the 1960s." In W. Harkins et al., eds. Czech Literature of the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press.

93. "Mythic and Modern Elements in the Art of Ladislav Fuks: Natalia Mooshaber's Mice." In Fiction and Drama in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Ed. by H. Birnbaum and T. Eekman. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica.

94. Some Fundamental Concepts leading to a Semiotics of Culture: A Historical Overview. In J. Umiker Sebeok and Irene Portis Winner, eds. Semiotics of Culture. Paris The Hague: Mouton). Pp.71 82.

1981

95. "Ladislav Fuks." Encyclopedia of World Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar.

96. "Milan Kundera." Encyclopedia of World Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar.

97. "Bohuslav Hrabal." Encyclopedia of World Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar.

98. "A. P. Chekhov." Encyclopedia of World Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar.

1983

99. "Text Pragmatics." In D. Worth and T. Eekman, eds. Russian Poetics. Columbus Ohio: Slavica.

100. "The Case of A Polysystem Bridging Eastern and Western Europe." In Irene Portis Winner, ed. The Dynamics of East European Ethnicity. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman. Pp.173-84.


1984

101. "Mythic and Modern Elements in the Art of Ladislav Fuks." In No. 10. Extended version of No. 93.

102. "Literature as a Semiotic Text. The Case of Kafka's `Verwandlung'". IN J. P. Strelka, ed. Literary Theory and Criticism. In Honor of Rene Wellek. Bern: Peter Lang.

103. "Russian Literary Theory of the Twenties and Thirties and Soviet Semiotic Theories." In P. Varnai, ed. La perspective critique soviétique. Cahiers D. Recherches 1900. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

104."On Visual Quotations in Verbal Artistic Texts: Intermodal Intertextuality". Semiosis. Semiotics and the History of Culture. In Honorem Georgii Lotman. Edited by Morris Halle et al. Ann Arbor (Michigan Slavic Contributions).

105."Zitate aus der darbildenden Kunst im literarischen Kunstwerk." In Klaus Oehler, ed. Zeichen und Realitat. Akten
des 3. Semiotischen Kolloquiums. Hamburg, 1981. Tübingen:
Stauffenburg.

106. "Chekhov's Seagull and Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Study of a
Dramatic Device." In René Wellek, ed. Chekhov: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Prentice Hall. Reprint of No. 36.

107. "Wortkunst als ein semiotisches System: Der Fall von Kafkas Verwandlung als ein metasemiotischer Text." Semiosis. 36 38, Max Bense zum 75. Geburtstag, Pp.5 24. German translation of No. 102.

108. "The Pragmatics of Literary Texts and the Prague Linguistic Circle." In Max Bense zum 75. Geburtstag. Edited by Elisabeth Walther. Semiosis, 9, No.4, 1984 and No.1,2,1985. Baden Baden: Agis Verlag.

109. "The Poetry of Chekhov's Prose: Lyrical Structures in 'The Lady With the Dog'." In Benjamin Stolz, I. Titunik, and L. Dole el, eds. Language and Literary Theory: In Honor of Ladislav Matejka. Ann Arbor (Papers in Slavic Philology, 5): PP.609 22.

110. "Roman Jakobson's Poetics: On the Occasion of Volume III of Roman Jakobson's Selected Writings. (Review article). International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 30,pp.159 71.

1985


111."Anton Chekhov." In European Writers: The Romantic Century. New York: Scribners. 1985.

1986

112. "Nachwort." Jan Muka ovský. Schriften zur Aesthetik, Kunsttheorie und Poetik. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

113. "Otakar Zich." In John Deely, ed. Neglected Figures in the History of Semiotic Inquiry. Semiotics 1985.

1987

114."Estetyka semiotyczna Romana Jakobsona" (The Aesthetic Semiotics of Roman Jakobson) (in Polish). Studie semiotyczne. (Warsaw). 14.

115. "Roman Jakobson and Semiotics." In Krystyna Pomorska, Alzbieta Chodakowska, Hugh McLean and Brent Vine, eds. Language, Poetry and Poetics. The Generation of the 1890s: Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij. Proceedings of the First Jakobson Colloquium. MIT, October 5 6, 1984. Berlin New York Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

116. "Parallelism and Musical Elements in Prose Narration: Anton Chekhov's Prose." In Zagadnenia rodzajów literackich. Wroc aw, Poland.

117."Jan Muka ovský's Semiotic Aesthetics" In Jens Peter Alberg, et al., eds. Text and Context; In Honor of Nils Ake Nilsson. Stockholm: University of Stockholm Press.

1988

118. "Literature As a Source for Anthropological Research: The Case of Jaroslav Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk." In Fernando Poyatos, ed. Literary Anthropology. Amsterdam: John Benjamin. 1988.

119. "P ísp vek René Wellka v americké literarní v d " (René Wellek's Contribution to American Literary Scholarship). Prom ny (Basel), No. 5 (1988).

120. "Parallelismen und musikalische Elemente in der Prosaerzaehlung: die Novellen Anton Tschechovs." In Reinhart Lauer, ed. Akten des internationalen Tschechov Symposiums, Badenweiler, 1985. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz (=Opera slavica) 1988.

1989

121. "The Nature of Culture." (With Irene Portis Winner). In Walter A. Koch, ed. Culture and Semiotics. Bochum (Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 7).
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122. Review: Soviet Literary Structuralism: Background, Debate, Issues. By Peter Seyffert. Columbus, OH (Slavica). 1988. Canadian American Slavic Journal. 22, Nos. 1 4 (1988), 1990. Pp. 409 411.

123. "Some Observations on Nonverbal Aspects of Literature: Spatio Temporal Modelling in Chekhov's 'Betrothed' (Nevesta)". Slavic and East European Journal.

124."Otakar Zich and Prague Dramatic Structuralist Semiotic Theories". In Karl Eimermacher, ed. Slavic Literary Theories. Poetics Today. 1989.

125."Semiotik und Literatur." In Walter Koch, ed. Semiotik und die Einzelwissenschaften. Bochum (=Bochumer Beitraege zur Semiotik vol.8). 1989.

126."Semiotics and Literature". (English version of #125). In Walter Koch, ed. Semiotics and the Individual Sciences. Bochum (=Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 10). 1989.

1990
127. "Literatura kak semioti eskaja sistema: 'Metamorfozy' Kafki kak metasemioti eskij tekst" (in Russian). In Res Philologia. Pamjati Akadmika G. V. Stepanova. Edited by S. C. Lixa ev. Moscow Leningrad (Nauka). 1990.


128. Japanese translation of "The Semiotics of Surrealism". Semiotics of Transformation. Studia Semiotica. (Tokyo). No. 10 (1990). Pp.263 276.

129. "Die tschechische Avantgarde und der Prager Linguistenkreis." In Zeichen von Zeichen für Zeichen. Festschrift für Max Bense. Edited by Elisabeth Walther and Udo Bayer. Baden Baden (Agis Verlag). 1990. Pp.224 39.

130. "Sinkretism v iskusstve A. P. exova." In exov i zapad. Moscow:Institut mirovoj literatury. (Forthcoming. Date unknown).

131. "The Aesthetic Semiotics of Roman Jakobson." Sonus 1991. (Republication of # 115.)

132. "Czech Avantgarde Prose of the Sixties." Galen Research Co. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. 1991. vol 42. Reprint of # 65.

133. "The Czech Interwar Avantgarde and the Prague Linguistic Circle." Semiotic Analysis of Literary Texts. Festschrift for Jan Van Der Eng. Amsterdam (Elsevier Science Publishers North Holland Press).1991.

134.(As Translator). Arno Pa ík, "Art in Terezín". Catalogue for Exhibition of art from the concentration camp Terezín. Massachusetts College of Art. March 1991.

1992 and beyond
135. "The Semiotics of Surrealism in the World of the Czech Avantgarde of the 1920s and 1930s." Signs of Humanity/L'Homme et ses signes, Edited by Michel Balat and Janice Deledalle-Rhodes. Berlin (Mouton-De Gruyter).1993.

136. "The Semiotics of Surrealism". E. Semeka ed., Studies in Poetics. Dedicated to the Memory of Krystyna Pomorska. University of California. UCLA Slavic Studies). 1993

137. "Charles Sanders Peirce a literatura." Czech version of #141. eská literatura, Prague. 1992.

138. "Semiotika eského surrealismu." (Semiotics of Czech Surrealism.) Analogon, No. 7. Prague.1992.

141."Peirce and Literature." In Proceedings of the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress. Harvard University, September 5 10, 1989. Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner. Bloomington, IN (Indiana University Press). (1994).


142. "Charles Sanders Peirce and Bernard Bolzano." In Living Doubt: Essays on the Epistemology of C. S. Peirce. Edited by G. Debrock and M. Hulswit. Ketner. Bloomington, IN (Indiana University Press). (1994).

143. "Charles Sanders Peirce and the Poetic Semiotics of the Prague Linguistic Circle. In Peirce and Value Theory. Edited by Herman Parret. Amsterdam Philadelphia (John Benjamins).1994.

144. "Charles Sanders Peirce i literaturnye teorii pra skogo lingvisti eskogo kru ka." Trudy po znakovym sistemam. Tartu, Estonia.(Russian translation of #142.) (1996. In press (journal ceased publication.)

145. "Nekotorye nabljudenija o neverbal'nyx aspektax literatury: Prostranstvenno vremennoe modelirovanie v raskaze exova 'Nevesta'." (Some Observations about Nonverbal Aspects of Literature: Spatial Temporal Modelling in Chekhov's Story "The Betrothed"). exoviana. Moscow. (1993.)

146. The Prague Linguistic Circle: Contributions to Modern Studies in Culture, the Arts and Semiotics. In Semiotics and the Human Sciences. Roberta Kevelson, ed., Bern Peter Lang 1992.

147. "Peirce a Bolzano" (Peirce and Bolzano). eská literatura 40/5, pp.461-473. Prague. 1992.

148. "Prague Structuralism and Semiotics". Opera slavica. II/3. Special issue in Honor of Danuše Kšicová. Brno, Czech Republic. 1992.

149. "Roman Jakobson a avangardní um ní. Estetika (Prague). 1994.

150. "Prague Structuralism and Semiotics: Neglect and Resulting Fallacies". Review Article. Semiotica 105-3/4 (1995): 243-275.

151."Prague Functionalism."In: Semiotics: A Handbook of the Sign Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture. Edited by Roland Posner, Klaus Robering, and Thomas A. Sebeok. Vol. 2. Berlin New York: De Gruyter. 1995.

152. "Czech Poetism: A New Poetic Language." In: The World of Signs. For Professor Jerzy Pelc on His 7oth Birthday. Edited by J. Jadacki and W. Strawi ski. Warsaw 1997.

153. "Roman Jakobson and Poetism: Language Is Not A Prison House." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Roman Jakobson Held in Šlapanice, Czech Republic. Edited by Miroslav Mikulášek. Litteraria humanitas IV. Brno, Czech Republic.

154. "K historii surrealismu." [On the history of surrealism]. Tvar. Praha. No.5. 1995:1,4.

155. "The Prague School and Czech Cultural Life in the 1920s and 1930s. Papers of Internationale Fachkonferenz: Strukturalismus - Osteuropa und die Entstehung einer universalen Wissenschaftskultur der Moderne. Ed. Walter Schmitz and Ludger Udolph. Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Dresden. 1998 (In print).

156. "Nad t emi manifesty Karla Teiga". [On Three Manifests of Karel Teige] Tvar (Prague). 12-2-95.

157. "Rozhovor s Prof. T.G. Winnerem."[Interview with Prof. T. G. Winner]. Tvar. January 1996.

158. "Slovesné a výtvarné um ní: Nezvalova báse 'Snídan v tráv ' a Manet v obraz 'Le déjeuner dans l'herbe" [Verbal and Visual Arts: Nezval's Poem "Breakfast in the Grass" and Manet's painting le déjeuner sur l'herbe.] eská Literatura 46/1 (1998)

159. "Struktura Nezvalova Edisona a prazsky strukturalismus: basen a hudba" [The Structure of Nezval's Edison and Prague Structuralism: Poetry and Music]. Lecture at occasion of award of honorary doctorate at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. eska literatura. 44/4: 346-58. Praha. Also in Universitni noviny. Masarykova univerzita. Brno.

160. "Van ura jako literární kritik: jeho vztahy k Pra skému lingvistickému krou ku" (Van ura as a Literary Critic: His Relations to the Prague Linguistic Circle). eská literatura 45/5 (1997) Prague. Pp.451-66.

161. "Vladislav Van ura as Critic. His Relation to the Prague Linguistic Circle." S-European Journal for Semiotic Studies. Vol. 10 (1,2) (1988).

162. "Is Art Dead? Postmodernism and Czech Poetism." In Proceedings of International semiotics Conference. Festschrift in honor of the 80th Birthday of Prof. T. G. Winner. S- European Journal for Semiotic Studies. In print.


Book in preparation: The Czech Interwar Avantgarde in the European Context.
EDC 1999.