| Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time Subjects: Philology -- Addresses essays lectures; Semiotics -- Addresses essays lectures; Space and time in language -- Addresses essays lectures; Space and time in literature -- Addresses essays lectures; The work of Roman Jakobson has long been recognized as central to debates in linguistics and literary theory. This book makes Jakobson's ideas, previously collected only in a monumental, seven-volume edition of his selected writings, readily available for the first time. It brings together eleven essays on topics of crucial importance to poetics and linguistics. |