The renowned theoretician and historian of Russian poetics analyzes the complicated problem of the mutual relations of poetic meter and the poem’s sense in the work of Russian poets from 18th century to modern authors. In different chapters, prefaced by theoretical introduction, Gasparov interprets the emotional and semantic connotations of the poetic meters of Russian poetry. The postface is an article of. I. Levin “Semantic aureole of meter from the semiotic point of view”. Bibliography. (0.525 kg.)
Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov (Russian: Михаил Леонович Гаспаров) was a Russian philologist and translator, renowned for his studies in classical philology and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.