Language in Literature

Roman Jakobson

Edited by Krystyna Pomorska

Edited by Stephen Rudy

    Introduction by Krystyna Pomorska

    PART I: QUESTIONS OF LITERARY THEORY

    1. On Realism in Art
    2. Futurism
    3. Dada
    4. The Dominant
    5. Problems in the Study of Language and Literature (with Jurij Tynjanov)
    6. Language in Operation
    7. Linguistics and Poetics
    8. Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances

    PART II: GRAMMAR IN POETRY

    9. Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry
    10. Grammatical Parallelism and Its Russian Facet
    11. Baudelaire's "Les Chats" (with Claude Lévi-Strauss)
    12. Shakespeare's Verbal Art in "Th' Expence of Spirit" (with L. G. Jones)
    13. Yeats' "Sorrow of Love" through the Years (with Stephen Rudy)
    14. Subliminal Verbal Patterning in Poetry
    15. Supraconscious Turgenev

    PART III: WRITER, BIOGRAPHY, MYTH

    16. On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets
    17. Marginal Notes on the Prose of the Poet Pasternak
    18. The Statue in Pu∫kin's Poetic Mythology
    19. What Is Poetry?
    20. Notes on Myth in Erben's Work
    21. In Memory of V. V. Hanka

    PART IV: SEMIOTIC VISTAS

    22. Quest for the Essence of Language
    23. On Linguistic Aspects of Translation
    24. A Glance at the Development of Semiotics
    25. Musicology and Linguistics
    26. Is the Film in Decline?
    27. On the Relation between Visual and Auditory Signs
    28. Motor Signs for "Yes" and "No"
    29. On the Verbal Art of William Blake and Other Poet-Painters

    Notes

    Index

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Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) was at the time of his death Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The late Krystyna Pomorska, Roman Jacobson's widow, was Professor of Slavic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Stephen Rudy is Professor of Slavic, New York University.