[This book introduces] a new way of studying literature by attempting to create a systematic account of the structure of literary works, rather than studying the meaning of the work.
This book introduces a new way of studying literature by attempting to create a systematic account of the structure of literary works, rather than studying the meaning of the work....
Investigating the conceptualisation of structure and form within literature, the Russian Formalists affected both the creation of art during the 1920s and 1930s and the development of literary theory as...
Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary ...
Dhvani and Structuralist Poetics: Multicultural Studies of Creation of Meaning in Poetry
The volume is provided with a Bibliography of the poetics of expressiveness and a Glossary of its metalanguage.
This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry.
Introduction to Poetics
In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular.
Steadfastly adhering to the text in itself, this volume reveals the often surprising, hitherto unconsidered structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.
William J. McDonald , editor in chief . 17 vols . New York : McGraw - Hill , 1967– 1979 . BX841.N44 signed articles ( some of them virtually monographs ) useful to both the specialist and the intelligent layman .