 | Roman Jakobson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1971 - 772 pages
...on contiguity". When pursuing the role of these two factors in poetic language, it became clear that "the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection onto the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence".... | |
 | Roman Jakobson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1971 - 772 pages
...on contiguity". When pursuing the role of these two factors in poetic language, it became clear that "the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection onto the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence".... | |
 | Jan Muka?ovský - Poetry - 1976 - 92 pages
...for this postscript. We might begin, then, by stating Jakobson's definition of the poetic function: "The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination." 1 This definition posits two axes of language - the axes of selection and of combination which undergo... | |
 | Stephen Heath - Performing Arts - 1981 - 272 pages
...interview with NoCi Burch', Women and Film no. 5—6 p. 22. 78. Burch and Dana, art. cit. p.44 (Jakobson: ‘The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination.' ‘Linguistics and Poetics', in TA Sebeok (ed.), Style in Language (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960)... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 310 pages
...linguistic criterion the poetic function is recognized empirically," he formulates the following answer: "The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination" (LP, p. 303). This accounts for the particular attention he pays, throughout his work, to the various... | |
 | Donald Hall - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 524 pages
...it becomes prosody and is no longer anything but an inflexion which lasts only to present the Word. The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Jakobson's formula suggests the primacy of the paradigmatic to the extent that it imposes itself on... | |
 | Elrud Ibsch - Criticism - 1982 - 360 pages
...Linguistically-oriented theories worked from Jakobson's defmition of the poetic function of language (“the poetic function projects the principle of...axis of selection into the axis of combination”), or else focused on various types of deviation which might be characteristic of literary language, while... | |
 | Charles Bernheimer - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 292 pages
...of equivalence to the constitutive device of sequential order. "The poetic function," he maintains, "projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination." 36 Although Jakobson explicitly declares that he does not limit the notion of "poetic function" to... | |
 | Walter A. Koch - Literature - 1983 - 612 pages
...definition of the poetic function. Let us focus on two of his most widely known "aphorisms" . ( 9) The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination (JAKOBSON 1960: 358) (1O) The set (Einstellung) toward the MESSAGE as such, focus on the message for... | |
 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 108 pages
...to pursue its consequences in entirely new directions. Here is his formulation of the key principle: ‘The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence...the axis of selection into the axis of combination' [‘Linguistics and poetics'; SW III, 27]. That is to say, the syntagmatic recurrence of paradigmatically... | |
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as follows: The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence. In poetry one syllable is equalized with any other syllable... 
