Alexander  ZHOLKOVSKYCONTENTS


Preface

Author’s Note

Introduction: A Pre-Poststructuralist Poetics

 

                                       Part One: An Outline of the Theory

1. Eisenstein’s Generative Poetics

2. Deus ex Machina

3. Thematic Invariance and the Concept of “Poetic World”                                      Part Two: Structure and Derivation

4. The Somali Tale “A Soothsayer Tested”

5. Deriving Poetic Structure: A Somali Proverb

6. Pun and Punishment: “The Structure of a Bertrand Russell Aphorism

                                       Part Three: Thematic Invariance

7. ‘Window’ in the Poetic World of Boris Pasiernak

8. Pushkin’s Invariants

9. . Invariants and the Structure of a Text: Pushkin’s “I loved you . . .”

10. Comparing Poetic Worlds

 

                                        Part Four: Expressive Devices

11. How to Show Things with Words: On the Iconic Representation of Themes by Expression-Plane Means

12. On the Preparation of the Final Prhyming Word: presage and recoil in Rhyming.

 

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Works Cited

Index