Semiotics and City Poetics : : Jakobson’s Theory and Praxis / / Mary Coghill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Coghill, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 364 p.)

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.

Table of 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