ABSTRACT
Jakobson died in 1982, and as each new paradigm of literary-critical awareness and affiliation replaces the last his name and his work become more and more like carefully preserved exhibits in the museum of semiology and literary studies. During the 1970s, and less so in the 1980s, journals such as Poetics, Language and Style and Linguistics contained essays which acknowledged, sometimes productively, sometimes dismissively, the Jakobsonian method. By the 1990s the critic who acknowledges his/her debt to the working methods of Jakobson is as rare as the reborn New Critic.
