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Annotation: After a series of recent musical and artistic projects, musician, educator and theorist Július Fujak has also made a name for himself as a journalist. His latest publication is primarily a scientific and pedagogical publication intended for students of humanities, but its broad-spectrum content can provide space for reflection for those interested in diverse views and perspectives on current issues of contemporary culture and art. The publication is divided into two thematic areas: The first area, entitled Overlaps of Semiotic Studies, focuses on the field of semiotics of art, and the second represents Overlaps of Cultural Studies. The leitmotif of Fujak's work is precisely the phenomenon of overlaps between contemporary semiotics and culturology. Both disciplines, subject to development and transformation in current economic, social and cultural realities, find themselves (like many other disciplines) at an imaginary crossroads. They can remain in the closedness of now-outdated theoretical concepts or, in the words of Július Fujak, "become part of a revitalization effort to investigate socially culture-forming phenomena in the intentions of the necessarily complementary interdisciplinary overlap of the postmodern scientific discourse of semiotic and cultural studies". It is precisely the ability to observe and (re)discover mutual overlaps in the aforementioned branches of contemporary humanities that we find in the individual critically reflected topics of Fujak's current book.

Identifier: 9788055820927

Status: Available

Other title information: Signs in Flux

Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff

Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.

Identifier: 9781644693872

Status: Available

Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective

Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.

Identifier: 9783030178826

Status: Available

Annotation: Lo sappiamo: l'uomo è ciò che mangia. Ma che cosa mangia? come lo mangia? quando? con chi? E cosi facendo, che tipo i uomo diventa? Ecco una serie di domande a cui questo libro prova a fornire delle risposte. Nella convinzione che, per poter fare una buona comunicazione sul cibo, la cucina, l'enograstronomia, occorra innanzitutto conoscerne gli aspetti culturali e storici, folosofici e semiotici.

Identifier: 9788843073733

Status: Available

Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop

Annotation: Key historical texts of semiotics of culture in Tartu Moscow School

Identifier: 9789949323234

Status: Available

Other title information: the place of nature in Estonia and beyond

Annotation: This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis

Identifier: 9789949196234

Status: Available

Notes: Appendix: Three lectures by Juri Lotman

Annotation: This book looks afresh at the heritage of cultural semiotician Juri Lotman - the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. The author proceeds from the idea that 'intellect' is one of the central categories of Juri Lotman's semiotics. Intellect becomes an important concept in Lotman's heritage - starting with the series of lectures given by him in the autumn and winter of 1967 at the University of Tartu (the lectures are published for the first time as an appendix to the book).

Identifier: 9789949118311

Status: Available

Other title information: a few comparisons

Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.

Identifier: 9789525576023

Status: Available

Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita

Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.

Identifier: 9525431142

Status: Available

Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.

Identifier: 0789025701

Status: Available

Annotation: The publication brings together selected articles, studies and parts of monographs on semiotics, in which the most prominent working semioticians in the world demonstrate the applied and theoretical potential of the discipline. In three sections - "Semiotics and theory of culture", "Semiotics and practice", "Semiotics", the texts of Paul Cobley, Jeff Bernard, Hugo Volley, Roland Posner, Gloria Witthalm, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Susan Petrilli, are presented. Augusto Ponzio, Patricia Calefato, Eero Tarasti.

Identifier: 9545353104

Status: Available

Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life

Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.

Identifier: 0595167500

Status: Available

Other title information: An introduction and handbook

Annotation: Analyzing Cultures is a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines, including introductory courses in semiotics, courses in cultural studies, anthropology courses on culture, social science courses on human nature.

Identifier: 0253335671

Status: Available

Notes: One of the books in this library is inherited from Tyler James Bennet's library

Annotation: Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.

Identifier: 0253213207

Status: Available

Other title information: Tracing the signifier

Annotation: This book contains works of authors: Hugh J. Silverman, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Francois Raffoul, Kelly Oliver, Stephanie John Sage, Mark Roberts, Debra B. Bergoffen, M. Alison Arnett, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Adi Ophir

Identifier: 0415919541

Status: Available

Other title information: their design and meaning

Notes: Original title in German "Der Manch un seine Sachen" (1928), English translation by Andrew Bluhm

Annotation: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks. This is a compelling study of the nature of signs and how people communicate written by the distinguished typographer Adrian Frutiger; who has illustrated his text with over 2000 line drawings. He reproduces numerous aspects of graphic symbolism from the simplicity of the T-sign to the ornamentation of the Australian aboriginal painting, and comments on the full range of symbols even including modern trademarks and traffic signs. This is the distillation of Frutiger's life's work and compulsory reading for all those interested in graphics, design, art, ornament and communication in general.

Identifier: 0823048268

Status: Available

Annotation: Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.

Identifier: 3931828387

Status: Available

Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.

Identifier: 031209020X

Status: Available

Other title information: Semiotics of Nationalism through Heroic Biography

Annotation: The main focus of this project, when it was undertaken in 1987, was on name as sign and hero as icon. Since the completion of the work in 1988, dramatic changes have occurred in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. Through them, one may observe the unpredictable power of signs and symbols and their profound impact on the collective psyche. Masses of people are involved in the destruction of the old icons and the formation of new ones. Here our semiotic lenses are focused on the role of symbolic, on the power of the name-sign, and on the display of its semiotic constant.

Identifier: 3110130122

Status: Available

Other title information: Facts and Facets

Annotation: This book is a collection of papers about semiotics of culture, literature and linguistics in different contexts.

Identifier: 3883398853

Status: Available

Other title information: Semiotic Essays on Japanese culture

Annotation: Like Roland Barthe's well-known book, 'The Empire of Signs', from which its title is taken, the present volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture. Also like those contained in Barthes' book, the essays in the present volume are generally characterized by a mildly semioitc orientation, which means that while the authors may or may not be explicitly conscious of semiotic formulation, they are all (at least in the editor's view) interested in, and concerned with signifying (or meaning-generating) activity.

Identifier: 9027232784

Status: Available

Annotation: This book is based on the editor asking 10 questions to different researchers about their perspective of connection between culture and semiotics

Identifier: 3883394211

Status: Available