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Explanations of Roman Jakobson’s Poetic Function

Author: XieChunYan
Tutor: WangFeng
School: East China Normal University
Course: Literature and Art
Keywords: Roman Jakobson Poetic Function Equivalence Principle Metaphor
CLC: I0
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


Roman Jakobson is a famous Russian American linguist and literary theorist. As one of the founders of the Moscow Linguistic Circle, the soul of the Russian Formalism and the leading figure of the Prague School, he contributed a lot to the development of humanities in the 20th century, with his achievements in both linguistics and poetics.By integrating Structuralism linguistics with literary criticism practices, Jakobson blazed the path of Linguistic Poetics. One of his most prominent achievements is that he established a function system of language, which gave rise to the Poetic Function, an important aspect of Jakobsonian thoughts. The Poetic Function, to which he later made a thorough analysis, illustrates the inner possibility of how poetry would be poetry.My dissertation takes up Roman Jakobson’s theory of Poetic Function as the subject, discussing issues as the foundation, concept, content and practices of this theory. It starts from the quest of "literariness", moves on to the presentation and application of the Poetic Function and then illustrates some important concepts of this theory as the "equivalence principle" and "metaphor and metonymy", in order to clarify "what is poetry" and "what poetry does".This dissertation aims to re-establish the big impact of Jakobson’s theory to modern literary research field and deepen people’s understanding of the relationship between literature and language, and the character of literary language as well, so that the development of literary theory will get new momentum.

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