Poetics and Phonostylistics. Osip Brik: In memoriam. Vol. 1.: Papers of the Ist Osip Brik International Colloquium,
held at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts on February 10-12, 2010.
Moscow, MGUP, 2010.
http://philologos.narod.ru/brikpapers.htm
The papers collected in this volume present 79 researchers from 10 countries covering a wide range of issues in linguistics, literary theory, modern art, and media studies, first raised in the works of Osip Brik (January 16, 1888 — February 22, 1945), a well known Russian philologist and theoretician of the avant-garde.
The collection of articles is divided into five sections, which include papers on the following topics:
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Rhythm and Grammar in the Literary Text. Rhythmic-syntactic patterns and formulas in verse, fiction and media discourse. Rhythm and morpheme. Parts of speech and rhythmics of verse. Syntax and rhythmics. Coordinate and subordinate clauses in verse and prose. Computer analysis of verse syntax. The influence of O. Brik's work “Rhythm and syntax” on modern philology.
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Sound Texture of the Literary Text and Methods of its Analysis. Formal typology and functions of sound repetition. Syllable structure and vowel factors in the syntagmatics of verse. Sound repetition and metathesis. Alliteration and rhyme in Russian poetry. Sound structure of a text in the light of its syntax and morphology. The role of phonotactic similarity in occasional word-formations. Phonetic attraction of words: paronomasia, figura etymologica, and anagram. Phonostylisyics of individual literary discourse. O. Brik’s text “Sound Repetitions” and its interpretation in modern linguistics.
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Esthetics in the light of Pragmatics and Verbal Technologies of Modern Media. Pragmatic structuring of communication and pragmatic types of discourse. Verbal device as a tool for ideological influence. Verbality and visuality in art and media. Sound and rhythm in advertising. Phonostylistics and pragmatics of the language-game. Ideas of Productivism in modern TV practice.
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Russian Productivism and Creative Works of Osip Brik as a topic for historical, philological and bibliographical description. O. Brik in OPOYAZ and Moscow Linguistic Cercle. Russian theory of visual arts and print media. O. Brik as a leader of LEF and an ideologue of productivism. Osip Brik as editor and producer of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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Publications and Memoirs. A number of newly commented O.Brik’s articles devoted to advertising theory, R. Jakobson’s reflections on Brik’s life and ideas, B. Jangfeldt on R. Jakobson, and the prospect for the publication of O.Brik’s collected works.
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The final part contains the Photo Archive, which includes the first publication of a substantial number of photographs from Lily Brik and LEF archives and also the collection of images reflecting the creative activity of Russian futurists, formalists and productivists, such as Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vassily Jermilov, Viktor Shklovsky, Alexander Reformatsky, and Osip Brik.
