Culture and explosion
By: by Juri Lotman ; edited by Marina Grishakova ; translated by Wilma Clark.
Contributors: Grishakova, Marina.; Clark, Wilma, 1964-
Series: Semiotics, communication and cognition -- 1
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110218459; 9783110218466
Subjects: Semiotics; Culture -- Semiotic models; Semiotics and literature; Semantics (Philosophy); Semiotics and the arts
Work titles: Kulʹtura i vzryv.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translator's preface / Wilma Clark; title: Introduction / Edna Andrews; title: Foreword: Lotmanian explosion / Peeter Torop; title: 1. Statement of the problem; title: 2. A monolingual system; title: 3. Gradual progress; title: 4. Continuity and discontinuity; title: 5. Semantic intersection as semantic explosion. Inspiration; title: 6. Thinking reed; title: 7. The world of proper names; title: 8. The fool and the madman; title: 9. The text within the text (inset chapter); title: 10. Inverse image; title: 11. The logic of explosion; title: 12. The moment of unpredictability; title: 13. Internal structures and external influences; title: 14. Two forms of dynamic; title: 15. The dream; title: a semiotic window; title: 16. 'I' and 'I'; title: 17. The phenomenon of art; title: 18. The end! How sonorous is this word!; title: 19. Perspectives; title: 20. In place of conclusions; title: Afterword; title: Around 'Culture and Explosion': J. Lotman and the Tartu-Moscow School in the 1980-90s / Marina Grishakova; title: Subject index.