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Culture and Explosion is the English translation of the final book written by legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. The volume demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience "reality". Lotman's renowned erudition is showcased in a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities. Now appearing in English for the very first time, the volume is made accessible to students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in unde.

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M. de Gruyter
Language
English
Pages
195

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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Semiotics and literature Communication Studies Semiotics and the arts Culture Semantics (Philosophy) Semiotics Semiotic models Language and languages
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Table of Contents

Translator's preface / Wilma Clark
Introduction / Edna Andrews
Foreword : Lotmanian explosion / Peeter Torop
Statement of the problem
A monolingual system
Gradual progress
Continuity and discontinuity
Semantic intersection as the explosion of meanings : inspiration
Thinking reed
The world of proper names
The fool and the madman
The text within the text (inset chapter)
Inverse image
The logic of explosion
The moment of unpredictability
Internal structures and external influences
Two forms of dynamic
The dream : a semiotic window
"I" and "I"
The phenomenon of art
The end! How sonorous is this word!
Perspectives
In place of conclusions
Afterword
Around Culture and explosion : J. Lotman and the Tartu-Moscow School in the 1980-90s / Marina Grishakova
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Berlin, New York
Series
Semiotics, communication and cognition -- 1, Semiotics, communication and cognition -- 1.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.2
Library of Congress
P99 .L6713 2009eb, P99.L6713 2009

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Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (xxxix, 195 pages)
Number of pages
195

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27028372M
ISBN 10
311021847X
ISBN 13
9783110218473
OCLC/WorldCat
502359731

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Work ID
OL19839009W

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