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"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