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First Edition with Number Line to 1. This book was previously owned by the late rabbi, psychoanalyst, and scholar Alan W. Miller. I purchased it directly from his home some years ago. He stamped his name and penned the date near the top corner of the first front end paper. You can see the covers of the book in the photos. They are exceptionally clean. There is very little wear, a tiny indent at the front bottom edge, and a light crease off the top edge of the spine. The silver lettering on the spine is very bright. There isn't any rubbing at the edges or corners. The page edges are very clean. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. The interior of the book looks terrific. The inside covers and endpapers are perfectly clean and free of wear. That appears to accurately describe all the pages in the book. I'm scrolling through without finding any soiling. I'm not finding any creasing. The only marking is Dr. Miller's stamp. The only writing is the date beside it. There are no attachments. A beautiful book. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's quite clean. There are no tears. There's crinkling at the top edge of the spine. The sunlight has altered the hue of the spine. The flaps are in excellent condition, very clean, no tears, a tiny edge nick. The jacket will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. From the jacket: ' "Roman Jakobson was one of the great minds of the modern world," Edward J. Brown has written, "and the effects of his genius have been felt in many fields: linguistics, semiotics, art, structural anthropology, and, of course, literature." In every stage in his Odyssey from Moscow to Prague to Denmark and then to the United States, he formed collaborative efforts that changed the very nature of each discipline he touched. This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary. Among the essential items in the collection are such classics as "Linguistics and Poetics" and "On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets" and illuminations of Baudelaire, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, and Blake, as well as famous pieces on Shakespeare and Pushkin. The essays include fundamental theoretical statements, structural analysis of individual poems, explorations of the connections between poetry and experience, and semiotic perspectives on the structure of verbal and nonverbal art. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language and literature-- a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.'. Seller Inventory # 004226
Bibliographic Details
Title: Language In Literature
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
"Roman Jakobson was one of the great minds of the modern world," Edward J. Brown has written, "and the effects of his genius have been felt in many fields: linguistics, semiotics, art, structural anthropology, and, of course, literature." At every stage in his odyssey from Moscow to Prague to Denmark and then to the United States, he formed collaborative efforts that changed the very nature of each discipline he touched. This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary.
Jakobson reveals himself as one of the great explorers of literary art in our day--a critic who revealed the avant-garde thrust of even the most worked-over poets, such as Shakespeare and Pushkin, and enabled the reader to see them as the innovators they were. Jakobson takes the reader from literature to grammar and then back again, letting points of structural detail throw a sharp light on the underlying form and linking thereby the most disparate realms into a coherent whole. In his essays we can also learn to appreciate his search for a fully systematic, nonmetaphysical understanding of the workings of literature: Jakobson made possible a deep structural analysis that did not exist before.
Among the essential items in this collection are such classics as "Linguistics and Poetics" and "On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets" and illuminations of Baudelaire, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, and Blake, as well as the famous pieces on Shakespeare and Pushkin. The essays include fundamental theoretical statements, structural analyses of individual poems, explorations of the connections between poetry and experience, and semiotic perspectives on the structure of verbal and nonverbal art. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.
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