CiNii Books - Poetics of expressiveness : a theory and applications

The volume presents for the first time in book form in English the work of two major representatives of the so-called Moscow-Tartu school. The Introduction outlines their project for a poetics of expressiveness against the background of the structural-semiotic movement of the '60s and '70s. Part I is a systematic exposition of the theory, concentrating on the concepts of theme, expressive device, poetic world, etc. Part II and III apply these concepts to a structuralist portrayal of Leo Tolstoy's tales for children (shown to be A War and Peace in miniature) and of the medieval Latin author Archpoet of Cologne (with special emphasis on his Mock Penitent). The volume is provided with a Bibliography of the poetics of expressiveness and a Glossary of its metalanguage.

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1. Poetics Of Expressiveness: An Introduction
2. Part One. Theory: Concepts towards a theory of literary competence
3. Introductory remarks
4. 1. Basic concepts of the poetics of expressiveness
5. 2. Elementary expressive devices
6. 3. On VARIATION
7. 4. On PRESAGE
8. 5. On RECOIL
9. 6. On poetic worlds
10. Part Two. Two Applications
11. I Ex ungue leonem: Leo Tolstoy's children's stories as an echo of his major works. (A study in thematic invariance)
12. Introductory remarks
13. 7. Deep structure
14. 8. Surface structure
15. II The Archpoet of Cologne's arch poetics: Deep and surface structures of his "Confession" in service of an ambivalent theme
16. Introductory remarks
17. 9. Theme and deep design
18. 10. Deep structure
19. 11. Surface structure
20. Appendix
21. Abbreviations
22. Bibliography
23. References
24. Glossary
25. Index

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