New Book: The English Translation of "Culture & Explosion" by J. Lotman

[Marina Grishakova]

*Lotman, Juri*
Culture and Explosion
Ed. by Grishakova, Marina
Transl. by Clark, Wilma
2009 | Hardcover | RRP Euro [D] 99.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 
155.00. *
ISBN 978-3-11-021845-9
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 1

Contents: Translator's preface / Wilma Clark - Introduction / Edna 
Andrews - Foreword: Lotmanian explosion / Peeter Torop - 1. Statement of 
the problem -2. A monolingual system -3. Gradual progress - 4. 
Continuity and discontinuity -5. Semantic intersection as semantic 
explosion. Inspiration -6. Thinking reed - 7. The world of proper names 
- 8. The fool and the madman - 9. The text within the text (inset 
chapter) - 10. Inverse image - 11. The logic of explosion -12. The 
moment of unpredictability - 13. Internal structures and external 
influences - 14. Two forms of dynamic - 15. The dream-a semiotic window 
-16. 'I' and 'I' - 17. The phenomenon of art - 18. The end! How sonorous 
is this word! - 19. Perspectives -20. In place of conclusions - 
Afterword - Around 'Culture and Explosion': J. Lotman and the 
Tartu-Moscow School in the 1980-90s / Marina Grishakova -Subject index

Available at  
http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110218459-1

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