Culture and explosion / by Juri Lotman ; edited by Marina Grishakova ; translated by Wilma Clark.

Author/creator Lotman, I͡U. M.
Other author Grishakova, Marina.
Other author Clark, Wilma, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
Descriptionxxxix, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleKulʹtura i vzryv. English
SeriesSemiotics, communication and cognition, 1867-0873 ; 1
Semiotics, communication and cognition ; 1. ^A1011194
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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