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Introduction to Theory of Literature - Linguistics and Literature

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This lecture examines Roman Jakobson's account of poetic function and six language functions within the relationships among synchrony, diachrony, formalism, semiotics, and structuralism. It also discusses Lévi-Strauss's structural interpretation of the Oedipus myth and the use of diagrams in literary-linguistic theory.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. Synchrony and Diachrony
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- Chapter 2. The Emergence of Structuralism
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- Chapter 3. The Relationship Between Formalism and Semiotics
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- Chapter 4. Levi-Strauss and the Meaning of the Oedipus Myth
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- Chapter 5. The Poetic Function
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- Chapter 6. Jacobson's Six Functions
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- Chapter 7. Metalanguage and Poetic Function
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