The word and verbal art : selected essays by Jan Mukařovský / translated and edited by John Burbank and Peter Steiner ; foreword by René Wellek.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mukařovský, Jan.

Contributor:

• Steiner, P. (Peter), 1946- translator.

Series:

• Yale Russian and East European studies ; 13.
• Yale Russian and East European studies ; 13

Language:

• Czech
• English

Subjects (All):

• Literature.
• Structuralism (Literary analysis).

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977.

Contents:

• On poetic language.
• Two studies on poetic designation: Poetic designation and the aesthetic function of language. A note on the semantics of the poetic image.
• Two studies of dialogue: Dialogue and monologue. On stage dialogue.
• Intonation as the basic factor of poetic rhythm.
• A note on the Czech translation of Šklovskij's Theory of prose.
• The poet.
• The individual and literary development.
• Detail as the basic semantic unit in folk art.
• Between literature and visual arts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300015739 :

OCLC:

2645790