Language in Literature (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Roman Jakobson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Linguistics and literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Arts, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Linguistics or linguists, Poetics, Literary criticism
If by no other measure than sheer longevity and productivity, Roman Jakobson would have to be counted among the most significant figures in literary study of the twentieth century. A precocious student of languages as a youth, he was among the founders of the Moscow Linguistic Circle in 1915 and a supporter of its St. Petersburg counterpart, the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOJAZ), established the following year. A decade later, he would be among the originators of a similar group in Prague. Ferociously learned, possessed of prodigious energy, and above all single-mindedly...
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