Appendix: Jakobson on Mayakovsky and Dostoyevsky

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of figures IX
5. List of tables XI
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 What is Roman Jakobson’s “poetic function”? 9
8. Chapter 2 Jakobson’s semiotic axial model of poetic function, and a Formalist analysis and praxis of Mayakovsky’s poem “The City” 38
9. Chapter 3 Roman Jakobson and metonymy: Linguistics and semiotics 70
10. Chapter 4 Formalist poetics – towards a praxis of a city poetic with special reference to the metonym 90
11. Chapter 5 Self and city poetry: Jakobson, deictics and shifters 113
12. Chapter 6 Shifters, deictics and the woman narrator in city poetry: Theory and praxis 135
13. Chapter 7 Gerard Manley Hopkins: Parallels in poetry, parallels with Roman Jakobson 156
14. Chapter 8 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Poetry: Rules and revolution 175
15. Chapter 9 Poetry of the city, Mayakovsky and Hart Crane – the construction of form and landscape: Theory and praxis 198
16. Chapter 10 “Courage conquers the city” (“Смелость города берёт”, a Russian proverb): Metaphor, metonym and analogy in poetry of the city 224
17. Chapter 11 City as source: City as destination – formalist praxis, iconicity, and the city poetic genre 250
18. Chapter 12 Formalist praxis of city poetry: Poems from “Shades of Light” 278
19. Conclusion 305
20. Appendix: Jakobson on Mayakovsky and Dostoyevsky 311
21. References 343
22. Name and subject index 357