Abstract

This article discusses the literary techniques of the futurist poet Vladimir Majakovskij (1893-1930), and tries to explain how their meaning arises from contemporary poetic conventions, with particular focus on the term poėtičnost'.

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  • In the work of Roman Jakobson, one of the central proponents of structuralism, the concept of literaturnost’ means “literariness”, the poetic aspect of language which cannot be reduced to a given culture or style, a phenomenon sui generis almost in an almost phenomenological sense

  • It is one of the main tasks of the scientific study of literature to unite the thesis of the autonomy of the literary work with theories which can relate the work and its interpretation to general culture, and to the historically and culturally conditioned reception of the work

  • Autonomy of the literary work means that the works are not to be viewed as reflections of a social structure, not to be regarded as expressions of an ideology, but on the contrary, as entities which function according to aesthetic principles

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Introduction

In the work of Roman Jakobson, one of the central proponents of structuralism, the concept of literaturnost’ means “literariness”, the poetic aspect of language which cannot be reduced to a given culture or style, a phenomenon sui generis almost in an almost phenomenological sense. Poljarnyj Vestnik 8, 2005 ciology and anthropology, with their parallel concepts and practices, to show how a cultural structure, and rules for the use of poetic language in particular, are realized in history at the level of individual taste, as a sense that some literary techniques are essentially poetic, and that others are their opposites, as anti-poetic.

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