Description: Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work on poetry and poetics. Exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, he demonstates how vital Jacobson's work is to an understanding of language and poetry.
Review Quotes: With the 1996 centennial of his birth certain to bring renewed interest in the work of Roman Jakobson, we are fortunate to have this lucid presentation of the theory of poetics he developed over six decades, from his early work on Russian formalist and futurist poetry through the topics he discussed with Krystyna Pomorska in