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Themes and Texts.\u00a0Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Foreword by Jonathan Culler.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,1984.<\/p>\n

Alexander\u00a0 ZHOLKOVSKY
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Contents<\/p>\n

Preface
\nAuthor’s Note
\nIntroduction: A Pre-Poststructuralist Poetics<\/p>\n

Part One<\/strong>. An Outline of the Theory<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Eisenstein’s Generative Poetics
\n2.\u00a0 Deus ex Machina
\n3. Thematic Invariance and the Concept of “Poetic World”<\/p>\n

Part Two<\/strong>. Structure and Derivation<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The Somali Tale “A Soothsayer Tested”
\n5.\u00a0 Deriving Poetic Structure: A Somali Proverb
\n6.\u00a0 Pun and Punishment: “The Structure of a Bertrand Russell Aphorism<\/p>\n

Part Three<\/strong>. Thematic Invariance<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 ‘Window’ in the Poetic World of Boris Pasiernak
\n8.\u00a0 Pushkin’s Invariants
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0Invariants and the Structure of a Text: Pushkin’s “I loved you . . .”<\/a>
\n10. Comparing Poetic Worlds<\/p>\n

Part Four<\/strong>. Expressive Devices<\/p>\n

11. How to Show Things with Words: On the Iconic Representation of Themes by Expression-Plane Means
\n12. On the Preparation of the Final Prhyming Word: presage and recoil in Rhyming\u2026<\/p>\n

Notes
\nGlossary
\nBibliography
\nWorks Cited
\nIndex<\/p>\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-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThemes and Texts - 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\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Themes and Texts - Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-10T00:13:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes\/\",\"name\":\"Themes and Texts - 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