Roman Jakobson

Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work on poetry and poetics. Exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, he demonstates how vital Jacobson's work is to an understanding of language and poetry.Roman Jakobson's work on poetry and poetics has always been overshadowed by his brilliant contributions to modern linguistics. Whilst his famous paper on 'Linguistics and Poetics' is acknowledged as central to the development of both linguistics and...
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Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work on poetry and poetics. Exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, he demonstates how vital Jacobson's work is to an understanding of language and poetry.Roman Jakobson's work on poetry and poetics has always been overshadowed by his brilliant contributions to modern linguistics. Whilst his famous paper on 'Linguistics and Poetics' is acknowledged as central to the development of both linguistics and critical theory, in the three decades since its publication it has been swept aside by the tide of poststucturalism. Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer to contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal the sweep of Jakobson's career.Roman Jakobson: Life, Language, Art is an analytic guide to Jakobson's work: it includes practical demonstrations of Jakobsonian method; it considers his work within the broader context of sructuralism and poststructuralism; it argues for the relevance of Jakobson's methods in contemporary critical theory.Richard Bradford resestablishes Jakobson's work as vital to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetry. By exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object language, a pathbreaking laboratory for insights into the structure and function of the sign, Roman Jakobson: Life, Language, Art offers a new reading of his work which includes the most radical elements of modernism. This book will be invaluable to students of Jakobson and to anyone interested in the development of critical theory, linguistics and stylistics.