Semiotics and city poetics : Jakobson's theory and praxis / Mary Coghill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coghill, Mary, 1952- author.

Series:

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] Series

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 1867-0873 ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.

Jakobson, Roman.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Introduction

Chapter 1 What is Roman Jakobson’s “poetic function”?

Chapter 2 Jakobson’s semiotic axial model of poetic function, and a Formalist analysis and praxis of Mayakovsky’s poem “The City”

Chapter 3 Roman Jakobson and metonymy: Linguistics and semiotics

Chapter 4 Formalist poetics – towards a praxis of a city poetic with special reference to the metonym

Chapter 5 Self and city poetry: Jakobson, deictics and shifters

Chapter 6 Shifters, deictics and the woman narrator in city poetry: Theory and praxis

Chapter 7 Gerard Manley Hopkins: Parallels in poetry, parallels with Roman Jakobson

Chapter 8 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Poetry: Rules and revolution

Chapter 9 Poetry of the city, Mayakovsky and Hart Crane – the construction of form and landscape: Theory and praxis

Chapter 10 “Courage conquers the city” (“Смелость города берёт”, a Russian proverb): Metaphor, metonym and analogy in poetry of the city

Chapter 11 City as source: City as destination – formalist praxis, iconicity, and the city poetic genre

Chapter 12 Formalist praxis of city poetry: Poems from “Shades of Light”

Conclusion

Appendix: Jakobson on Mayakovsky and Dostoyevsky

References

Name and subject index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-061739-0

3-11-061480-4

OCLC:

1353268845