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      The publication of this book is supported by the grant from the TRANSKRIPT program of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation.

      Originals: © Yuri Lotman estate, Estonian Semiotics Repository Foundation (Eesti Semiootikavaramu), all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. Literary Agency, Barcelona, Spain.

      Collection: © Academic Studies Press

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Lotman,

      Title: Culture and communication: signs in flux: an anthology of major and lesser-known works/by Yuri Lotman; edited by Andreas Schönle; translated from the Russian by Benjamin Paloff.

      Description: Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. | Series: Cultural syllabus | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020011311 (print) | LCCN 2020011312 (ebook) | ISBN 9781644693865 (hardback) | ISBN 9781644693872 (paperback) | ISBN 9781644693889 (adobe pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Semiotics. | Culture--Semiotic models.

      Classification: LCC P99 .L6625 2020 (print) | LCC P99 (ebook) | DDC 401/.4--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011311

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011312

      ISBN 9781644693865 hardback

      ISBN 9781644693872 paperback

      ISBN 9781644693889 ebook PDF

      ISBN 9781644693896 ePub

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      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       A Note on the Text

       A Note on Transliteration

       Introduction

       Translator’s Note

       PART ONE Semiotics

       1. From Universe of the Mind

       Autocommunication: “I” and “Other” as Addressees

       Semiotic Space

       The Idea of Boundary

       2. From The Structure of the Artistic Text

       “Noise” and Artistic Information

       The Problem of Plot

       3. From Culture and Explosion

       The Interrupted and the Uninterrupted

       Perspectives

       Instead of Conclusions

       4. Memory in a Culturological Light

       5. The Language of Theater

       PART TWO Cultural History

       6. The Role of Dual Models in the Dynamics of Russian Culture

       7. The Symbolism of Petersburg and the Problems of Semiotics of the City

       8. The Duel

       9. A Woman’s World

       Notes