Semiotics and City Poetics: Jakobson's Theory and Praxis

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.

Author: Mary Coghill
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 12/05/2022
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9783110614503
ISBN10: 3110614502
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Literary Criticism | Poetry

About the Author

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