Roman Jakobson and Mac Hammond. (Essays).(Critical Essay) From: ANQ | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Edmunds, Lowell | COPYRIGHT 2003 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Roman Jakobson's essay "Linguistics and Poetics" has had a longer run than most other twentieth-century works of literary theory (Jakobson 1981). (1) Its diagram linking addresser and addressee continues to be drawn on university blackboards every year. Its specification of the "poetic function" as equivalence or repetition is a lasting contribution of Russian formalism, no matter what the fortune of Jakobson's sorties into literary interpretation.

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