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Alexander\u00a0 ZHOLKOVSKYCONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Preface<\/p>\n

Author’s Note<\/p>\n

Introduction: A Pre-Poststructuralist Poetics<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part One:<\/strong>\u00a0An Outline of the Theory<\/p>\n

1. Eisenstein’s Generative Poetics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2.\u00a0Deus ex Machina<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. Thematic Invariance and the Concept of “Poetic World”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part Two:\u00a0<\/strong>Structure and Derivation<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0The Somali Tale “A Soothsayer Tested”<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Deriving Poetic Structure: A Somali Proverb<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Pun and Punishment: “The Structure of a Bertrand Russell Aphorism<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0‘Window’ in the Poetic World of Boris Pasiernak<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Pushkin’s Invariants<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0.\u00a0Invariants and the Structure of a Text: Pushkin’s “I loved you . . .”<\/a><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Comparing Poetic Worlds<\/p>\n

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11.\u00a0How to Show Things with Words: On the Iconic Representation of Themes by Expression-Plane Means<\/a><\/p>\n

12.\u00a0On the Preparation of the Final Prhyming Word: presage and recoil in Rhyming.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Notes<\/p>\n

Glossary<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/p>\n

Works Cited<\/p>\n

Index<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1813","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThemes and Texts. Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness. Foreword by Jonathan Culler. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. - Alexander Zholkovsky<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes-and-texts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Themes and Texts. Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness. 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