Preferred Citation: Cassedy, Steven. Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8h4nb55x/


 

INDEX

A

"About Contemporary Poetry." See Khlebnikov, Velimir

"About Verses." See Khlebnikov, Velimir

Abrams, M. H., 35 ;

The Mirror and the Lamp,35

Abstraction, 2 , 9 , 49 , 175 –77, 180 , 185

Acmeism, 53 , 100

Aesthetic object, 187 –89, 201

Aesthetics, 184 –92

Aish, Deborah A. K., 234 n20

Akhmatova, Anna, 53

Algebra, 12 , 145 , 157 , 160 , 162 –63

Allegories of Reading. See de Man, Paul

Altman, Aaron, 5 –6

Amenophis IV, 173

Anthroposophy, 52

Aphasia, 123

Arbitraire du signe,23 –26, 129

Architecture, 202 –4

Aristotle, 23 –24, 34 , 35 ;

kata syntheken,24 ;

On Interpretation,24 ;

Poetics, 34

Arithmology, 163

"Art as Device." See Shklovsky, Viktor

Atheism, 106

Aubanel, Théodore, 151

Austin, L.-J., 85 –86, 234 n5, 235 n20

"Autobiography" (letter of Mallarmé to Verlaine). See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Avant-garde, Russian, 53 , 54 , 170 –80, 212 –15

B

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 31 –32, 119 –20;

dialogic, 119 –20;

raznorechie (heteroglossia), 31 –32

Balzac, Honoré de, 6

Barooshian, Vahan D., 240 n7

Barthes, Roland, 3 , 8 , 14 , 17 , 145 , 193

Baudelaire, Charles, 64 , 122 , 132 , 155 , 169 –70, 180 ;

Les fleurs du mal,64

Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan, 140 , 143 –44

Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 184 –85, 242 n2

Beardsley, Monroe, 31 ;

Aesthetics, 31 ;

"The Intentional Fallacy" (with W. K. Wimsatt), 31

"Beauty in Nature." See Solov'ev, Vladimir

Becker, Karl Friedrich, 40

being/Being, 8 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 49 , 82 , 183 –226

Being and Time. See Heidegger, Martin

Bell, E. T., 143 , 144

Bely, Andrei (pseud. of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev), 16 –18, 41 , 42 , 45 –54, 56 , 57 , 60 , 61 , 108 –11, 113 , 124 , 126 , 131 , 163 –70, 171 , 172 , 175 , 177 , 179 –80, 208 –10;

"Emblematics of Meaning," 46 , 47 , 49 –51, 53 , 54 , 108 –11, 169 ;

"Lyric Poetry and Experiment," 46 , 165 –68, 170 ;

"Magic of Words," 46 , 48 , 49 –51, 54 , 56 , 61 , 209 ;

meter vs. rhythm, 166 –70;

Petersburg,208 –9;

"The Principle of Form in Aesthetics," 164 –65, 171 ;

review of Potebnia's Mysl' i jazyk (Thought and Language),42 , 48 , 50 , 56 ;

symbol, symbolism, 45 , 46 –54, 108 –11;

Symbol Embodied, 110 –11;


246

Bely, Andrei

symbolic and emblematic meaning, 109 ;

Symbolism (Simvolizm),46 ;

symbolization, 52 –53, 109 –11;

"Toward a Characterization of the Russian Iambic Tetrameter," 167 –68;

Why I Became a Symbolist,52 –53

Berkeley, George, 24 , 25

Blindness and Insight. See de Man, Paul

Blok, Aleksandr, 114

Bloom, Allan, 14 –15, 32 , 193 –94;

The Closing of the American Mind,14 –15, 32

Bobrov, Sergei, 177 ;

"The Lyric Theme," 177

Book, the. See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Boole, George, 136 , 143

Boon, James, 155

Braque, Georges, 25 , 124 , 143 , 146 –47

Bréal, Michel, 113

Bremond, Claude:

Logique du récit,12

Brisure. See Derrida, Jacques

Briusov, Valerii, 168

Broadcast News,5 –6

Bröndal, Viggo, 145

Brooker, Jewel Spears, 234 n5

Brooks, Cleanth, 11 , 30 –31;

Literary Criticism (with W. K. Wimsatt), 31 ;

The Well Wrought Urn,11 , 31

Bruns, Gerald L., 196 , 212 , 235 n20

Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich. See Bely, Andrei

Bugaev, Nikolai Vasil'evich, 163 –64, 170

Bulgakov, Sergei, 111 –14, 119 ;

Filosofija imeni (Philosophy of the Name ), 112 –14;

"Was ist das Wort?" 112

Burliuk, David, 173 –74, 176 , 212 –13, 240 n9;

"Cubism (Surface—Plane)," 176 ;

"The Milker of Exhausted Toads," 174

Burliuk, Nikolai, 174 , 212 –13;

"Poetic Principles," 174

Bya, Joseph, 230 n3, 233 n50

Byzantine empire, 101

C

Calculus, 162

Calculus of probability, 143

Cassedy, Steven, 231 nn19, 20, 24, 235 n20

Cassirer, Ernst, 24 , 37 –38, 40 , 135 –40, 144 –46, 163 ;

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms,24 , 37 –38, 135 –36, 138 –40;

"Structuralism in Modern Linguistics," 144 –45

Categories. See Kant, Immanuel

Catholicism, 65 , 84 –93, 106 . See also Theology, Catholic

Cazalis, Henri, 86 , 93

Celeyrett-Pietri, Nicole, 239 n14

Centrifuge (group in Russian avant-garde), 170 , 177

Chisholm, A. R., 235 n20

Christ, 89 , 101 –6, 107 , 112 –13, 131 , 200

Clark, Katerina, 119 –20

Clark, Timothy, 229 n24

Close reading, 30

Closing of the American Mind. See Bloom, Allan

Closure. See Group (mathematical concept)

Code, 9

Cognition, 49 –51

Cohn, Robert Greer, 228 nn3, 13

Comparative literature, 14

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 24 , 25

Conrad, Waldemar, 186 –87, 193 ;

"Der ästhetische Gegenstand" (The aesthetic object), 186 –87

Conservation of energy, 164 –65

Constantine V (Byzantine emperor), 101

Constantinople, 101

"Construction of the Word." See Florensky, Pavel

Constructivism, 214

Cooke, Raymond, 232 n32, 240 n14

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 159

Coppée, François, 151

Coseriu, Eugenio, 23 –25, 28

Cratylus. See Plato; Language, Cratylic view of

Creation, God's, 102 , 131

"Crise de vers." See Mallarmé, Stéphane

"Crisis in Verse." See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Crisis of Euoprean Sciences. See Husserl, Edmund

Critical Inquiry,4 –5

"Criticism and Crisis." See de Man, Paul

Cubism, 175 –76, 179

Cubo-Futurists, 54 , 175 , 232 n34

Culler, Jonathan, 237 n11

Cyril, Saint, 131

D

Danahy, Michael, 234 n5

Dance, 160 , 203

Danto, Arthur, 191

Dasein. See Heidegger, Martin

de Man, Paul, 6 –7, 9 –11, 14 –15, 33 –34, 189 , 193 , 217 , 224 –26;

Allegories of Reading,10 ;

Blindness and Insight,67 , 9 –11;

"Criticism and Crisis," 9 –10;

rhetoricity, 10 –11, 34 , 225

"Declaration of the Word as Such." See Kruchenykh, Aleksei

Deconstructionism, 14 , 33 , 193

Delfel, Guy, 91 –92


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Derrida, Jacques, 8 , 14 –15, 17 , 29 –30, 33 –34, 192 –93, 229 n24;

brisure, 30 ;

différance,30

Descartes, René, 67 , 148–61, 162 , 184 –85;

Discourse on Method,148 –50, 156 ;

"Rules for the Direction of the Mind," 150

Diacritics, 5

Dialogic. See Bakhtin, Mikhail

Dickie, George, 191

Différance. See Derrida, Jacques

Distinctive features. See Jakobson, Roman

Dostoevsky, Fedor, 84 , 88 , 99 , 114 , 171

Duke University, 7

E

Eagleton, Terry, 11 , 77 –79, 100

Earle, John, 67 ;

The Philology of the English Tongue,67

Ehrenburg, Il'ia, 213 –14

Eidos, 105 , 112 , 116 , 126 –27

Einstein, Albert, 140 –41, 179

Eliot, T. S., 31 , 77 ;

the Tradition, 77

Energeia 43 , 45 . See also Humboldt, Wilhelm von

English Words. See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Episteme . See Foucault, Michel

Epistemology, 47 , 51 –52, 103 , 105 , 110 , 111 , 113 , 131 , 210 , 217

Epithet, 61

Erlich, Victor, 39 , 58 –59, 233 n50

Essay on the Origin of Languages. See Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Essence(s), essentialism, 92 , 98 , 105 , 112 , 115 , 116 , 118 , 126 –32, 161 , 164 , 169 , 172 , 177 , 180 , 187 , 191 , 192 , 195 , 206 , 216 , 221 , 223

Etymon, 117 –18

Eupalinos, or the Architect. See Valéry, Paul

Eurydice, 221 , 225

Explication de texte,149

External form. See Inner form; Potebnia, inner form

F

Farmer, Fannie, 238 n3

Féline, Pierre, 156

Feminism, 78

Ferrari-Bravo, Donatella, 230 n3

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 24 , 25

Filosofija imeni. See Bulgakov, Sergei

Fizer, John, 230 nn3, 13

Flaubert, Gustave, 114

Florensky, Pavel, 114 –20;

"The Construction of the Word," 20;

"Iconostasis," 115 ;

The Pillar and Ground of the Truth,114 –20, 236 n13

Formalism, 33 , 34 , 40 , 43 , 46 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 111

Formalism, Russian, 25 –26, 39 , 53 , 57 , 62 , 63 , 79 , 100 , 105 , 106 , 119 , 121 , 122 , 124 –26, 128

Foucault, Michel, 14 , 27 –28, 73 –74, 83 –84, 193 , 195 –97, 210 ;

episteme, 27 –28, 83 , 195 ;

Les mots et les choses,27 –28

France, 8 , 17

Freedom, 110

Futurism, Italian, 176

Futurism, Russian, 25 , 56 , 57 , 100 , 121 , 124 , 125 , 128 , 170 –80, 214

G

Gaède, Edouard, 69 –70

Galois, Evariste, 137

Games, theory of, 143

Gaudin, Albert, 239 n13

Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 143 –44

"General of Meaning of Art." See Solov'ev, Vladimir

Genette, Gérard, 233 n4

Geometry, 165 –68, 177 , 206 –7;

Euclidean, 178 , 208 ;

n -dimensional, 178 –79;

non-Euclidean, 136 , 144 ;

projective, 138

Gide, André, 156

Gill, Austin, 85 –86, 234 n5

Glossolalia, 57

God, death of, 81 –84

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 165 , 216

Goncharova, Natal'ia, 175 –77, 180

Goodman, Nelson, 191

Gorgias, 172

Gorodetsky, Sergei, 53 ;

"Some Currents in Contemporary Russian Poetry," 53

"Go to Hell" (Futurist manifesto), 171

Graduate education, 6 , 15

Greimas, A. J., 145

Group (mathematical concept), 136 –40, 156 –57, 162 ;

closure, 137 –40, 206

Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch, 179

Guro, Elena, 212 –13

H

Halle, Morris, 238 n9

Hamburger, Käte, 216 –17, 221

Hansen-Löve, Aage A., 119

Hartman, Geoffrey, 224

Heath, Stephen, 17 , 228 n12

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 24 , 25 , 86 , 89 , 92 , 99 , 202 ;

Phenomenology of Spirit,86

Heidegger, Martin, 7 , 8 , 14 –15, 80 , 117 , 191 –94, 211 , 217 , 221 –24, 225 –26, 229 n24, 240 n8, 244 n5;

"Aletheia,"


248

Heidegger, Martin

117 ;

art defined, 191 –92;

being (das Seiende ) vs. Being (Sein ), 222 –23;

Being and Time (Sein und Zeit ), 15 , 191 , 221 , 226 ;

Dasein, 191 –92;

hermeneutic circle, 15 , 225 –26;

"The Origin of the Work of Art," 191 –92;

poetry defined, 191 –92;

truth defined, 191 –92;

"Wozu Dichter?" 221 –23

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 178 –79, 241 n26

Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 34

Hermeneutic circle, 15 . See also Heidegger, Martin

Hermes, 225

Heteroglossia. See Bakhtin, Mikhail

Hirsch, E. D., 32 ;

Cultural Literacy,32 ;

Validity in Interpretation,32

Hobbes, Thomas, 24 , 25

Hoffmann, E. T. A., 200 –201

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 221 –22

Holenstein, Elmar, 127 –28

Holquist, Michael, 119 –20, 229 n22

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 35 –38, 39 –40, 42 , 44 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 70 , 113 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 126 –27;

energeia/ergon,36 , 42 ;

inner form of speech, 36 , 38 , 41 –42;

Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues,35 –38

Husserl, Edmund, 8 , 29 , 104 , 127 –28, 183 , 186 –88, 189 , 190 , 191 , 193 , 221 ;

The Crisis of European Sciences,149 –50;

Logische Untersuchungen,29 , 186

Hutch for Judges,212 –13

Hylaea, 170

Hypersolid, 178 –79

Hyperspace, 178 –79

I

Iambic tetrameter (Russian), 166

Ibsen, Henrik, 165

Icon(s), 12 , 48 , 51 , 101 –6, 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 –14, 115 –16, 131 , 132 , 210

Iconoclasm, 101 –3

"Iconostasis." See Florensky, Pavel

Idealism, 162 –63, 186 , 188 , 201

Idolatry, 102 –3

Ignat'ev, Ivan Vasil'evich, 173

Iliad,61 , 62

Image. See Icon(s); Iconoclasm

Imjaslavie (glorification of the name), 105 , 112 –14

Impersonality, 31

Incarnation, 101 –6, 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 –13, 115 , 116 , 120 , 131 , 223

Information theory, 143

Ingarden, Roman, 29 , 31 , 183 –84, 187 –89, 190 , 194 ;

The Controversy over the Existence of the World,188 ;

intentional objects, 188 –89;

Investigations into the Ontology of Art,189 ;

The Literary Work of Art,183 –84, 187 –89

Inner form, 36 , 41 , 48 , 50 , 58 , 62 , 117 –19, 126 , 129 , 131

Invariant, invariance, 127 –28, 138 –40, 142 –44, 147 , 157

J

Jakobson, Roman, 13 , 16 –17, 25 , 79 –80, 100 , 105 , 113 –14, 121 –32, 140 –45, 163 , 168 –70, 180 ;

distinctive features, 141 –42;

"The Kazan' School of Polish Linguistics," 143 –44;

"'Les chats' de Charles Baudelaire" (with Claude Levi-Strauss), 122 , 132 , 169 –70, 180 ;

"Linguistics and Poetics," 123 –24;

"Linguistics in Relation to Other Sciences, "143;

literaturnost',33 , 125 –26, 131 ;

markedness-unmarkedness distinction, 141 –42;

metaphor and metonymy, 63 , 122 –23;

"On Linguistic Aspects of Translation," 129 –30;

"Problems in the Study of Literature and Language" (with Yury Tynianov), 122 ;

"Quest for the Essence of Language," 129 ;

"Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances," 233 n53;

"Vers une science de l'art poétique," 130 ;

"What is Poetry?" 128 –29

Jallat, Jeannine, 239 n13

John, Gospel according to, 47

John of Damascus, Saint, 101 –3, 106 , 120

Joyce, James, 25 , 124

K

Kafka, Franz, 3

Kant, Immanuel, 37 –38, 47 , 99 , 110 , 114 , 135 , 159 , 223 ;

Categories, or Pure Concepts of Understanding, 51 ;

Critique of Judgment,185 –86;

Critique of Practical Reason,185 ;

Critique of Pure Reason,185

Kata syntheken,24

Kenosis, 102 –4, 106 , 108 , 113 , 115 , 119 –20

Kesting, Marianne, 235 n20

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 16 , 25 , 54 –57, 124 –26, 171 –73, 175 , 179 , 180 , 210 –13, 232 n32, 240 nn9, 14;

"About Contemporary Poetry," 55 , 232 n30;

"About Verses," 55 , 232 n31;

"Bukva kak takovaja" (The letter as such), 232 n34;

"Proposals," 211 ;

"The Simple Names of Language," 55 ;

"Slovo kak takovoe" (The word as such), 232 n34;


249

"Time is the Measure of the World, " 172 –73

Klein, Felix, 140

Kruchenykh, Aleksei, 54 –57, 125 , 172 –73, 179 , 210 , 212 –13, 240 n9;

"Bukva kak takovaja" (The letter as such), 232 n34;

"Declaration of the Word as Such," 54 –55, 232 n34;

"New Ways of the Word," 55 , 179 ;

"Slovo kak takovoe" (The word as such), 232 n34

Kruszewski, Mikolaj, 143

L

La Charité, Virginia A., 235 n20

Lachmann, Renate, 230 n3

Laferrière, Daniel, 232 n40

Language, 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 9 –11, 14 , 16 , 17 , 19 –74, 80 , 83 , 195 –97, 224 –26;

Aristotle's theory of, 23 –24;

Bakhtin's theory of, 31 –32;

Bulgakov's theory of, 111 –14;

contextual theories of, 31 –32, 117 –20, 193 ;

Cratylic view of, 21 –24, 36 –37, 66 –69, 70 , 71 , 73 , 74 ;

Derrida's theory of, 29 –30, 192 –93;

Florensky's theory of, 116 –20;

Foucault's views on, 27 –28;

geneticist theories of, 50 ;

Heidegger's definition of, 192 ;

Humboldt's theory of, 35 –38;

Husserl's theory of, 29 ;

Ingarden's theory of, 29 ;

Khlebnikov's theories of, 54 –57, 172 –73, 211 ;

Kruchenykh's theories of, 54 –57;

Mallarmé's views on, 64 –74, 83 –84;

Marxist theory of, 32 ;

myths of, 21 –38;

nativist theories of, 50 , 54 , 55 ;

objectivist theories of, 31 –32;

Orphic and Hermetic conceptions of, 196 ;

phenomenological theories of, 29 ;

poetic, 10 , 32 –38, 43 , 56 , 58 –60, 63 , 71 –74, 123 –32, 197 , 225 ;

postmodern theory of, 192 –93;

Potebnia's theory of, 39 –46;

Rousseau's theory of, 21 –22, 31 ;

Russian Formalist theories of, 25 –26;

Russian philosophy of, 104 –106;

Saussure's theory of, 32 ;

zaum' theory of, 54 –57, 172 –73, 179 , 210 –12

Larionov, Mikhail, 176 –77, 179 , 213 ;

"Why We Paint Ourselves" (with Il'ia Zdanevich), 213

"L'art pour tous." See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Le Corbusier (pseud. of Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 25 , 124

Lectures on Godmanhood. See Solov'ev, Vladimir

Leftist criticism, 7 , 15

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 24 , 25 , 135 , 173 , 240 n11

Le Livre. See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Leninism, 100

Lentricchia, Frank, 7 , 11 , 98

"'Les chats' de Baudelaire." See Jakobson, Roman; Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Les fleurs du mal. See Baudelaire, Charles

Les mots anglais. See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Les mots et les choses. See Foucault, Michel

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 24 , 25

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 122 , 145 , 155 , 169 –70, 180 ;

"'Les chats' de Charles Baudelaire" (with Roman Jakobson), 122 , 132 , 169 –70, 180

Lewis, Paula Gilbert, 234 n5

"Linguistics and Poetics." See Jakobson, Roman

Lissitzky, El (pseud. of Lazar Markovich Lisitsky), 174 –75, 179 , 212 , 213 –15;

"Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division," 174 –75;

"Of Two Squares," 174

Literarity, 10

Literaturnost'. See Jakobson, Roman

Liturgy, Catholic, 89 –91, 97

Livshits, Benedikt, 178 , 212 –13;

"In the Citadel of the Revolutionary Word," 178 ;

The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer,178

Lobachevsky, Nikolai, 143 –44

Locke, John, 24 , 25

Logique du récit. See Bremond, Claude

Logische Untersuchungen. See Husserl, Edmund

Logology. See logos/Logos (the Word of God)

logos/Logos (the Word of God), 29 , 45 , 80 , 82 , 101 , 103 , 104 –6, 107 , 112 –14, 120 , 131

Lossky, N. O., 100

M

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 35

MacCabe, Colin, 228 n12

Macquarrie, John, 15 , 80 , 192

Making strange. See Ostranenie ; Shklovsky, Viktor, ostranenie

Malevich, Kazimir, 176 , 177 , 179 ;

From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism,177

Mallarmé, Anatole, 87 –88

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 7 , 9 , 12 , 16 –17, 28 , 64 –74, 80 , 81 –98, 150 –55, 156 , 158 , 160 , 173 , 195 –201, 202 , 210 –11, 240 n14;

"Autobiography" (letter to Verlaine), 93 –94, 155 ;

Un coup de dés,152 –54;

"Crise de vers" (Crisis in verse), 66 , 69 –74, 130 , 151 , 154 , 173 ;


250

Mallarmé, Stéphane

and God, 84 –89;

"L'art pour tous" (Art for everybody), 64 , 65 , 91 ;

le Livre (the Book), 86 , 93 –98, 151 –55, 211 –12, 234 n20;

Le Livre" de Mallarmé (manuscript notes), 94 –97, 151 –55, 200 –201;

Les mots anglais (English words), 66 –69, 70 –71, 150 , 173 ;

"Offices," 89 –91, 96 , 97 ;

"Quant au Livre" (Concerning the Book), 65 , 94 , 96 , 151 , 197 –200;

Sartre on, 81 –84;

transposition, 72 –73, 92 ;

Variations sur un sujet (Variations on a subject), 70

Mandelshtam, Osip, 53

Markedness-unmarkedness distinction. See Jakobson, Roman

Marx, Karl, 17

Marxism, 32 , 77 –79, 100

Materialism, 162 –63

Mathematics, 135 –47, 149 –51, 155 , 156 –61, 162 –64, 170 –80, 212 ;

formalistic vs. intuitionistic, 135 –36, 146 ;

structure in, 145 –46;

truth in, 136 .

See also Algebra; Calculus; Calculus of probability; Geometry; Group; Invariant; Set theory; System; Transformation

Mathiot, Ginette 148 –49;

Je sais cuisiner,148 –49

Matiushin, Mikhail, 179

Mauron, Charles, 234 n5

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 171 , 212 –13, 240 n9

Meaning(s), 29 , 46 , 48 , 51 , 56 , 108 –11, 145 –46, 193 , 197 , 198 , 203 , 226

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 29 , 31

Metaphor, 36 , 49 , 61 , 63 . See also Jakobson, Roman

Metaphysics, 15 , 110 , 116

Metaphysics of presence, 14

Methodius, Saint, 131

Metonymy, 63 . See also Jakobson, Roman

Mezzanine of Poetry, 170

Michon, Jacques, 69

Milton, John, 35

Mirror and the Lamp. See Abrams, M. H.

MLN,3 –4

Modern consciousness, 8 –9, 16

Mondor, Henri, 234 n5

Mother of God, 102 , 103 , 115 , 116

Muller, A., 234 n5

Müller, Max, 113

Mysl' i jazyk. See Potebnia, Aleksandr Afanas'evich

Mystery, 89 , 91 , 97

Myth(s):

about language, 21 –26;

of origin, 21 , 26 , 36 , 38 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 48 , 50 , 60 , 116 , 117 , 118

N

Neogrammarians, 140

Neo-Kantianism, 51 –52, 109 –10

New Criticism, 1 , 11 , 14 , 31 , 77 , 98

Newton, Sir Isaac, 177

"New Ways of the Word." See Kruchenykh, Aleksei

Nicaea, Ecumenical Council of (787), 101 , 103

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 8 , 14 , 28 , 240 n8

Nihilism (in Russian politics), 162

Nizen, Ekaterina, 212 –13

Non-Euclidean geometry. See Geometry

Novalis (pseud. of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von Hardenberg), 173

O

Objectivism, 30 –31, 33

Oedipus, 10

"Offices." See Mallarmé, Stéphane

"On Linguistic Aspects of Translation." See Jakobson, Roman

Ontology, 8 , 13 –16, 116 , 180 , 181 –226

Orliac, Antoine, 234 n5

Orpheus, 196 , 220 –21, 225

Ostranenïe (making strange), 59

Ouspensky, Peter Demianovich, 179 ;

Tertium Organum,179

Outer form. See Inner form; Potebnia, inner form

P

Paulmann, Inge, 233 n46

Peirce, Charles Sanders, 129 , 131

Penkova, Pirinka, 230 n3

Pepper, Stephen, 190 –91

Perceptual psychology, 139 –40

Phaedrus, 202 –4, 206

Phenomenology, 28 , 31 , 77 , 104 , 127 –28, 186 –90, 191 , 221

Phenomenology of Spirit. See Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Philosophy of the Name. See Bulgakov, Sergei

Phoneme, 25

Piaget, Jean, 145

Picasso, Pablo, 25 , 124 , 176

Pillar and Ground of the Truth. See Florensky, Pavel

Plato, 21 –22;

Cratylus, 21 –22, 69 , 105 .

See also Platonism

Platonism, 92 , 104 –5, 112 , 115 , 116 , 118 , 125 , 126 . See also Plato

PMLA,2 –3, 4

Poe, Edgar Allan, 87


251

"Poésie et pensée abstraite." See Valéry, Paul

Poeticity, 10 , 15 , 43 , 128 –29, 131

Poèticnost[*] '. See Poeticity

Poetics. See Aristotle

Poetry. See Language, poetic; Poetry-prose distinction

"Poetry and Abstract Thought." See Valéry, Paul

Poetry-prose distinction, 10 –11, 26 , 32 , 32 –38, 43 –44, 48 –49, 54 , 55 , 58 , 59 –60, 63 , 71 , 74 , 123 –32, 160

Poetry-science distinction, 35

Poincaré, Henri, 140

Postmodernism, 29 , 118 –19, 129 , 192 –93

Poststructuralism, 7

Potebnia, Aleksandr Afanas'evich, 25 , 26 , 36 , 39 –46, 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 58 –63, 117 –18, 126 –27, 141 , 230 nn3, 4;

inner form, 41 –44, 45 ;

Mysl' i jazyk (Thought and Language ), 39 –44, 48 , 50 , 59 ;

Notes on the Theory of Literature,48 , 59 , 61 ;

poeticity, 43 –44;

prosaicity, 43

"Potebnja" (article by Shklovsky). See Shklovsky, Viktor

Practical reason, 51

Prague Linguistic Circle, 121 , 189

Prat, Naftali, 104 –5, 235 n6

Prendergast, Christopher, 228 n12

Presnjakov, Oleg P., 230 n4

"Principle of Form in Aesthetics. See Bely, Andrei

Prosaicity, 43

Protagoras, 172

Prototype (of icon), 102 –3, 104 , 105 , 110 , 111 , 113 , 115 , 116 , 126 , 131 , 132 , 210

Proust, Marcel, 155

Pure Concepts of Understanding. See Kant, Immanuel

Pushkin, Alekandr Sergeevich, 171

Pythagoras, 173

Q

"Quant au Livre." See Mallarmé, Stéphane

"Quest for the Essence of Language." See Jakobson, Roman

R

Rayonism, 175 –77, 179

Raznorechie. See Bakhtin, Mikhail

Reading, 2 , 3

Real presence (of Christ), 89 , 91 , 200

Reception theories, 32

Relationalism, 8 , 12 –13, 18 , 73 , 74 , 133 –80, 195 , 202 –7

Relativity, theory of, 140 –41

Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 176

"Resurrection of the Word." See Shklovsky, Viktor

Revolution, Russian, 100 , 105 , 114 , 171 , 214

Rhetoric, 11

Rhetoricity. See de Man, Paul

Richard, Jean-Pierre, 87 –89, 92 , 235 n20

Rickert, Heinrich, 51 , 110 ;

Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis (The object of cognition), 51

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 7 , 10 , 16 , 18 , 216 –26;

Auguste Rodin,218 –20;

Dinggedichte,217 ;

Duino Elegies,217 –18, 221 ;

Neue Gedichte,225 ;

Sonnets to Orpheus,220 –21;

Weltinnenraum (world-innerspace), 218 , 220

Rimbaud, Arthur, 155

Robinson, Judith, 239 nn13, 14

Rodin, Auguste, 218 –20

Romanticism, 34 , 35 –36, 117

Rombauer, Irma S., 238 n3

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 10 , 21 –22, 31 , 34 , 43 , 155 ;

Essay on the Origin of Languages,10 , 34

Rubik's cube, 137 –38

Russian Formalism. See Formalism, Russian

Russian Futurism. See Futurism, Russian

Russian Orthodoxy, 12 , 99 –120, 131 , 210

S

Sadok sudei (Hutch for judges), 212 –13

Saint Vladimir Russian Orthodox Seminary, 100

Sartre, Jean Paul, 14 , 81 –84, 195 –96;

L'idiot de la famille,81 ;

Mallarmé: Lalucidité et sa face d'ombre,81 –84

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 23 –25, 121 –22, 129 , 140 ;

Cours de linguistique généerale,23 , 121 –22

Scherer, Jacques, 94 , 200 , 234 n19

Schiller, Friedrich, 216

Schleicher, August, 40 ;

Darwinian Theory and Linguistic Science,40

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 202

Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). See Heidegger, Martin

Sememe, 118

Semiotics, 119

Serres, Michel, 145 –47, 151 , 175 ;

Hermès ou la communication,145 –47;

symbolism, 145 –46, 151

Set theory, 143 , 163

Shklovsky, Viktor, 25 , 26 , 53 , 57 –63, 79 , 106 , 125 , 126 , 233 n46;

"Art as De-


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vice," 58 , 59 –60, 79 ;

"On Poetry and Transrarional Language," 57 ;

ostranenie (making strange), 59 , 62 –63;

"Potebnja" (Potebnia), 58 –60;

"The Resurrection of the Word," 60 –63, 106

Shpet, Gustav, 127 ;

The Inner Form of the Word,127

Simeon the Great, 103

"Simple Names of Language. See Khlebnikov, Velimir

"Slap in the Face of Public Taste," 171

Slovo kak takovoe. See Word as such

Sobornost', 119 –20

Socialism, 78

Socrates, 202 –4, 206

Solov'ev, Vladimir, 106 –8;

"Beauty in Nature," 107 ;

"The General Meaning of Art," 107 –8, 115 ;

Lectures on Godmanhood,106 –7

Son of God. See Christ

Sophia, 115

Sophists, 172

Statistics, 143

Steiner, George, 244 n5

Steinhal, Heymann, 113

Stravinsky, Igor, 25 , 124

Structuralism, 7 , 12 –13, 31 , 33 , 98 , 121 –22, 128 , 132 , 144 –47, 155 , 160 –61, 169 –70

Suprematism, 177

Symbolic logic, 136

Symbolism. See Serres, Michel

Symbolism, Russian, 39 , 53 , 57 , 100 , 106 . See also Bely, Andrei

System, 136 , 156 –61, 205 –6

T

Tartu, University of, 115

Tatlin, Vladimir, 213

Text, 2 , 3 , 5 , 9 , 13

Theisen, Josef, 235 n20

Theology, 8 , 11 –12, 15 , 75 –132, 147 , 192 , 195 , 222 –23;

Catholic, 12 , 80 ;

Eastern Orthodox, 102 ;

Russian Orthodox, 12 , 51 , 54 , 79 –80, 210

Theory of Literature. See Warren, Austin; Wellek, René

Thermodynamics, 164 –65

Thought and Language. See Potebnia, Aleksandr Afanas'evich

Tieck, Ludwig, 200 –201

Todorov, Tzvetan, 145 , 211 , 240 nl4;

Poétique de la prose,211

Tolstoy, Lev, 99 , 171

Topology, 143

Tradition. See Eliot, T. S.

Tragedy, 89

Transformation, 138 –40, 156 –57, 160

Transposition. See Mallarmé, Stéphane

Transrational language. See Zaum'

Trinity, 104 , 105 , 115

Tynianov, Yury, 122 ;

"Problems in the Study of Literature and Language" (with Roman Jakobson), 122

U

Über die Verschiedenheit. See Humboldt, Wilhelm von

Unbegaun, B. O., 240 n4

V

Valéry, Paul, 16 , 74 , 94 , 154 , 155 –61, 202 –7, 218 , 219 ;

Cahiers (Notebooks), 156 –61, 205 –6;

on dance, 160 , 203 ;

Eupalinos, or the Architect,202 –4, 206 ;

"A Few Words about Myself," 157 –58, 207 ;

"Homage to Marcel Proust," 160 ;

"On Literary Technique" 159 –60;

Monsieur Teste,155 ;

"Philosophy of the Dance," 160 , 203 ;

"Poésie et pensée abstraite" (Poetry and abstract thought), 74 , 160 ;

"Propos sur la poésie" (A few words about poetry), 204 –5;

the System, 158 –59

Valueé(s), 33 , 50 –53, 110 –11

Variations sur un sujet. See Mallarmé, Stephane

Vattimo, Gianni, 170 , 240 n8

Verbal Icon. See Wimsatt, W. K.

Verlaine, Paul, 93 , 155

Veselovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 61 –62;

"From the History of the Epithet," 61

Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (magazine founded by Lissitzky and Ehrenburg), 213 –14

Virtanen, Reino, 239 n13

Vroon, Ronald, 232 n32

Vucinich, Alexander, 162 –63

W

Wais, Kurt, 234 n5

Walicki, Andrzej, 99 –100

Warren, Austin:

Theory of Literature (with René Wellek), 190

Wellek, René, 189 –90;

"The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art," 189 –90;

Theory of Literature (with Austin Warren), 190

Well Wrought Urn. See Brooks, Cleanth

Weststeijn, Willem G., 230 n3

"What is Poetry?" See Jakobson, Roman

Why I Became a Symbolist. See Bely, Andrei


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Will, 110 , 162 –63

Wimsatt, W. K., 11 , 31 ;

"The Intentional Fallacy" (with Monroe Beardsley), 31 ;

Literary Criticism (with Cleanth Brooks), 31 ;

The Verbal Icon,11 , 31

Winteler, Jost, 140 , 144

Wolff, Christian, 24 , 25

Word, poetic. See Language, poetic

Word as such, 56 , 131 , 232 n34

Word of God. See logos/Logos

Wordsworth, William, 35 ;

preface to Lyrical Ballads,35

Y

Yale University, 8

Z

Zaum', zaumniki,54 –58, 130 , 172 –73, 179 , 210 –12, 213

Zdanevich, Il'ia, 213 ;

"Why We Paint Ourselves" (with Mikhail Larionov), 213


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Preferred Citation: Cassedy, Steven. Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8h4nb55x/