Language in literature

Jakobson Roman

Book

Beacon Press, Boston

1987

548 Pages

ISBN 9780674510272

Language in literature

Roman Jakobson

Edited by Stephen Rudy, Krystyna Pomorska

Among the essential items in this collection are such classics as “Linguistics and Poetics” and “On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets” and illuminations of Baudelaire, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, and Blake, as well as the famous pieces on Shakespeare and Pushkin. The essays include fundamental theoretical statements, structural analyses of individual poems, explorations of the connections between poetry and experience, and semiotic perspectives on the structure of verbal and nonverbal art.

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Full citation:

Jakobson, R. (1987). Language in literature, ed. Rudy Stephen; Pomorska Krystyna, Beacon Press, Boston.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Pomorska Krystyna

1-11

Questions of literary theory

Jakobson Roman

13-114