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; Semiotics, communication and cognition -- 1.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
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: Statement of the problem; title: A monolingual system; title: Gradual progress; title: Continuity and discontinuity; title: Semantic intersection as the explosion of meanings : inspiration; title: Thinking reed; title: The world of proper names; title: The fool and the madman; title: The text within the text (inset chapter); title: Inverse image; title: The logic of explosion; title: The moment of unpredictability; title: Internal structures and external influences; title: Two forms of dynamic; title: The dream : a semiotic window; title: "I" and "I"; title: The phenomenon of art; title: The end! How sonorous is this word!; title: Perspectives; title: 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: Index.