Overview

In this study, Bradford reasserts the value of Roman Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal for the sweep of Jakobson's career. Bradford re-establishes Jakobson's work as vital to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetry. By exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, new reading of his work is offered which includes the most radical elements of modernism. This book is aimed at students of Jakobson, and those interested in the development of critical theory, linguistics and stylistics.

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Author:   Richard Bradford
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780415077316

ISBN 10:   0415077311
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   14 April 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 The poetic function; Chapter 1 Metaphor and Metonymy; Chapter 2 The Set; Chapter 3 The Double Pattern; Chapter 4 Sonnets and Everything Else; Chapter 5 Zaum; Chapter 6 The Sliding Scale; Part 2 The unwelcoming context; Chapter 7 The Shifting Paradigm; Chapter 8 The Diagram; Chapter 9 Culler and the Flea’; Chapter 10 Speech Acts and ‘The Raven, Nevermore’; Chapter 11 Phonology, Poetics and Semiotics; Chapter 12 Lévi-Strauss, Barthes and Lacan; Part 3 Space and time; Chapter 13 Space and Time; Chapter 14 Jakobson, Auden and Majakovskij; Chapter 15 Two Models of Poetic History; Chapter 16 Jakobson and Bakhtin; Chapter 17 Closing Section; Chapter 18 Suggestions for further reading on context and influence;

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With the 1996 centennial of his birth certain to bring renewed interest in the work of Roman Jakobson, we are fortunate to have this lucid presentation of the theory of poetics he developed over six decades, from his early work on Russian formalist and futurist poetry through the topics he discussed with Krystyna Pomorska in

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