The Linguistic Philosophers Are Allergy to the Insides of Poetry

In 1920 Jakobson emigrated to Casabak where he remained until 1939 together with another Russian emigrade linguist Nikolay Trebetsky. He was there instrumental in founding the Prague linguistic circle which from 1936 onwards became the primary inspiration for the whole of European linguistics. In his youth in Russia Jakobson was himself a practicing poet and was particularly influenced by two Russian poets whose radical experiments with language have been compared to Cubists Picasso and Bra. It is thus ironic as my chairman would know very well that in our own country at the present time structuralist and post-structuralist forms of literary criticism all which are a great deal to Jakobson are frequently