附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Introduction : How literary criticism came into its own in this country and how the poets got there first -- pt. 1. Language. Flight from Eden : myths about myths about language in modern times -- The Russian tradition from Potebnia to Shklovsky, with some poets in between -- Mallarmé and the elocutionary disappearance of the poet -- pt. 2. Theology. Introduction : The hidden God -- How God didn't quite die in France -- Icon and logos, or why Russian philosophy is always theology -- Roman Jakobson, or how logology and mythology were exported -- pt. 3. Relationalism. Numbers, systems, functions-- and essences -- Descartes in relational garb -- How numbers ran amok in Russia -- pt. 4. Ontology. The being of artworks -- Being in the world and being in structures in Mallarmé and Valéry -- Into the world of names and out of the museum -- Rilke's house of being.