Michigan Slavic Contributions (MSC)

Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications

Year of Publication: 1994

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

# of Pages: 384

Price: $22.00

ISBN: 0-930042-55-7

Format: Paperback

Series Name / Number: Michigan Slavic Contributions [MSC] / 10

The Role of Dual Models in the Dynamics of Russian Culture;
New Aspects in the Study of Early Russian Culture;
Echoes of the Notion “Moscow as the Third Rome”;
The Decembrist in Everyday Life;
“Agreement” and “Self-Giving” as Archetypal Models of Culture;
The Theater and Theatricality;
The Stage and Painting as Code Mechanisms;
The Pragmatics of Literary Character;
Reconstruction of the Plan and Ideo-Compositional Function;
The Poetics of Everyday Behavior;
Tsar and Pretender;
Why Should the Devil Speak Syriac? On the Origin of ...

Essays in this volume deal in various ways with the process of semiosis. For St. Augustine, the cardinal issue was in the divinity of sacred texts; for Locke, the philosophical consequences of the semiotic; for Freud, the assignment of tokens to sign systems in psychosis; for Eisenstein, the problem of composition uniting distinct systems in the cinema; for more recent theoreticians--Mukarovksy, Greimas, Lotman, and Kristeva--the natures of semiotics itself.

Though by no means exhausting the subject, the contributions published her do reveal the common concerns of past and present. Toward...

Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications

Year of Publication: 1978

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

# of Pages: 622

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 0-930042-26-3

Format: Hardcover

Series Name / Number: Michigan Slavic Contributions [MSC] / 6

Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications

Year of Publication: 1971

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

# of Pages: 412

Price: $10.00

ISBN: 0-930042-12-3

Format: Paperback

Series Name / Number: Michigan Slavic Contributions [MSC] / 4