Roman Jakobson Life, Language and Art

Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer to contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal of the sweep of Jakobson's career.

In Roman Jakobson Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal 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 language, Roman Jakobson: Life, Language, Art offers a new reading of his work which includes the most radical elements of modernism. This book will be invaluable to students of Jakobson and to anyone interested in the development of critical theory, linguistics and stylistics.

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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