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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Culture and explosion.
International Standard Book Number
9783110218459
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Kulʹtura i vzryv.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Culture-- Semiotic models.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semiotics and literature.
Semiotics and the arts.
Semiotics.
Culture-- Semiotic models.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semiotics and literature.
Semiotics and the arts.
Semiotics.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
LAN-- 004000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
302
.
2
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
P99
Book number
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L6713
2009eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lotman, I︠U︡. M., (I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich),1922-1993.