Contents -- Preface -- My Favorite Topics -- The Dimension of Time -- Dialogue on Time in Language and Literature -- Problems in the Study of Language and Literature -- Sign and System of Language: A Reassessment of Saussure's Doctrine -- Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry -- Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry -- Two Poems by Puškin -- Subliminal Verbal Patterning in Poetry -- On Poetic Intentions and Linguistic Devices in Poetry: A Discussion with Professors and Students at the University of Cologne -- Yeats' "Sorrow of Love" through the Years -- Poetry and Life -- On a Generation that Squandered Its Poets -- The Language of Schizophrenia: Hölderlin's Speech and Poetry -- Jakobson's Legacy -- The Poetic Function and the Nature of Language -- Poetics of Prose -- Three Main Features, Seven Basic Principles, and Eleven Most Important Results of Roman Jakobson's Morphological Research -- Contributors -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.