Semiotics and City Poetics: Jakobson’s Theory and Praxis

Mary Coghill

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Semiotics and City Poetics

Jakobson’s Theory and Praxis

Mary Coghill

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 25 | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

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Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing Jakobson’s theories of communication and poetic function. It provides an extensive range of examples of the kinds of Formalist praxis that have been neglected in recent years, developing them for the analysis of all poetry but, especially, the poetry of our urban future. Throughout the book the parameters of a city poetic genre are proposed and established; the book also develops the theory of the function of shifters and deixis with special reference to women as narrators. It also instantiates an experimental poetic praxis based on the work of one of Jakobson’s great influences, Charles Sanders Peirce. Steadfastly adhering to the text in itself, this volume reveals the often surprising, hitherto unconsidered structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.

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Mary Coghill, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Humanities, Russian Department, Exeter University UK.

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

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December 5, 2022

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9783110617399

Hardcover published on:

December 5, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110614503

Paperback published on:

June 17, 2024

Paperback ISBN:

9783111518664

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

364

Illustrations:

10

Coloured Illustrations:

7

Tables:

8

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617399

eBook ISBN: 9783110617399

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110614503

Paperback ISBN: 9783111518664

Keywords for this book

Roman Jakobson; Semiotics; Linguistics; Poetics

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Researchers, Students of Roman Jakobson, Semiotics, Linguistics, Creative Writing Degree Teachers and Students, Poets

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Semiotics and City Poetics

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