Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- By Way of Preface -- 1. THE PATH TOWARD POETICS -- 2. APPROACHES TO FOLKLORE -- 3. VERSE AND THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE -- 4. THE ROLE OF CONSONANTS IN THE DISCOVERY OF PHONEMIC OPPOSITIONS -- 5. THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC THEORY -- 6. GENERAL ISSUES OF SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE -- 7. THE TIME FACTOR IN LANGUAGE AND IN LITERATURE -- 8. THE FACTOR OF SPACE -- 9. TIME IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SIGNS -- 10. THE CONCEPT OF THE MARK -- 11. PARALLELISM KP -- 12. POETRY AND GRAMMAR -- 13. SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, IN THE CINEMA, AND IN APHASIA -- 14. THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET, POETRY AND MYTH -- 15. SEMIOTICS -- Afterword -- BIBLIOGRAPHY