Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What is Roman Jakobson's "poetic function"? -- Chapter 2 Jakobson's semiotic axial model of poetic function, and a Formalist analysis and praxis of Mayakovsky's poem "The City" -- Chapter 3 Roman Jakobson and metonymy: Linguistics and semiotics -- Chapter 4 Formalist poetics - towards a praxis of a city poetic with special reference to the metonym -- Chapter 5 Self and city poetry: Jakobson, deictics and shifters -- Chapter 6 Shifters, deictics and the woman narrator in city poetry: Theory and praxis -- Chapter 7 Gerard Manley Hopkins: Parallels in poetry, parallels with Roman Jakobson -- Chapter 8 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Poetry: Rules and revolution -- Chapter 9 Poetry of the city, Mayakovsky and Hart Crane - the construction of form and landscape: Theory and praxis -- Chapter 10 "Courage conquers the city" ("Смелость города берёт", a Russian proverb): Metaphor, metonym and analogy in poetry of the city -- Chapter 11 City as source: City as destination - formalist praxis, iconicity, and the city poetic genre -- Chapter 12 Formalist praxis of city poetry: Poems from "Shades of Light" -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Jakobson on Mayakovsky and Dostoyevsky -- References -- Name and subject index