Poetics of expressiveness

Jurij ŠčeglovAlexander Žolkovskij

Benjamins - Amsterdam

1987

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.