Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii
Introduction, by Henryk Baran xi
Poetics of Prose 1
Studies on Three Poets: Myth and Semiotics 81
Figures of Folklore 203
Structuralism and Semiotics: Profiles of the Founders Jakobsen and Trubetzkoy 231
Notes 291
References 305
Index 317

About the Author

Krystyna Pomorska, at the time of her death, was Professor of Russian at MIT. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including Russian Formalist Theory and Its Poetic Ambiance, Themes and Variations in Pasternak's Poetics and, with Roman Jakobson, Dialogues. Henryk Baran has written extensively on Russian literature in the Silver Age and is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York, Albany.