Title: Roman Jakobson : life, language, art /
Authors: Bradford, Richard, 1957-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Jakobson, Roman,; Linguistics
Contents: pt. I. The poetic function. Metaphor and metonymy. The set. The double pattern. Sonnets and everything else. Zaum. The sliding scale -- pt. II. The unwelcoming context. The shifting paradigm. The diagram. Culler and 'The Flea'. Speech acts and 'The Raven, Nevermore'. Phonology, poetics and semiotics. Levi-Strauss, Barthes and Lacan -- pt. III. Space and time. Space and time. Jakobson, Auden and Majakovskij. Two models of poetic history. Jakobson and Bakhtin. Closing section: Jakobson and modernism.