New Book on Mahler

April 1, 2011

Dear Students and Colleagues,

It has been nearly a year since my retirement. I have sorely missed the classroom and my work with Slavic students. I hope to make a cameo appearance to lead my Slavic Contributions to Linguistics, Spring, 2012. Open to all linguistics students, the course is a theoretical study of Roman Jakobson and his followers' ideas on language and literature. You do not need Russian or Czech to sign up. Topics include the phenomenology of semiotics in natural language and the central place of function in language structure and change. Unfortunately most of my old students will have graduated or lost interest in this stuff by then — but if you Newcomb big sisters or Tulane big brothers (do they still have that?) would counsel your little siblings to consider this class — if, and only if (iff) they are fascinated by the beauty and the play of language — I will be pleased.Большое вам спасибо, moc a moc děkuju.

You may be interested in my new book, Mahler Re-Composed, IUniverse 2011,available in hard-, soft- and e-format. More on this later.
Regards,

gmc