In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological refere...In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological references,their study focuses on a structural analysis of the famous Baudelairian sonnet at several levels such as phonological,phonetic,syntactic,prosodic,and semantic.Many critical papers were published as soon as this work appeared.Faced with the crowd of dispute and opposition,Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss wrote a series of journalistic or monographic articles to explain and defend themselves.Our study aims to be a systematic summary of the dispute,proposing to analyze the criticisms of Riffatere,Mounin,and Frandon,and giving a reading of Jakobson’s reply.In conclusion,we will try to relate this debate to the French New Criticism(la Nouvelle Critique)to understand its historical and theoretical importance.展开更多
Traditionally,there is a complete rejection of the city within poetry.Nevertheless,as urbanization sped up,cities eventually became the center of culture.In modernistcity poems,the speaker takes up the role of“flaneu...Traditionally,there is a complete rejection of the city within poetry.Nevertheless,as urbanization sped up,cities eventually became the center of culture.In modernistcity poems,the speaker takes up the role of“flaneur”and conveys the poet’s reflections on urban life and urban people.By analyzing the characteristics and development of this image in modernist poetry,we can gain a deeper understanding of modernist poetry and urban life.展开更多
文摘In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological references,their study focuses on a structural analysis of the famous Baudelairian sonnet at several levels such as phonological,phonetic,syntactic,prosodic,and semantic.Many critical papers were published as soon as this work appeared.Faced with the crowd of dispute and opposition,Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss wrote a series of journalistic or monographic articles to explain and defend themselves.Our study aims to be a systematic summary of the dispute,proposing to analyze the criticisms of Riffatere,Mounin,and Frandon,and giving a reading of Jakobson’s reply.In conclusion,we will try to relate this debate to the French New Criticism(la Nouvelle Critique)to understand its historical and theoretical importance.
文摘Traditionally,there is a complete rejection of the city within poetry.Nevertheless,as urbanization sped up,cities eventually became the center of culture.In modernistcity poems,the speaker takes up the role of“flaneur”and conveys the poet’s reflections on urban life and urban people.By analyzing the characteristics and development of this image in modernist poetry,we can gain a deeper understanding of modernist poetry and urban life.
