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Fictional names, their use and pragmatic interpretations
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 165-185
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0005
Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 141-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071
Analyzing the fictional worlds of Pixar with an eye on digital humanities
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
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- 91-117
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0081
A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 151-166
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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The ontology of espionage in reality and fiction: A case study on iconicity
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 133-162
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.05
Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 187-202
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.11
Umberto Eco
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction
Annotation: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco, retracing his impact on literary studies, semiotics, aesthetics and philosophy.
Identifier: 0745608493
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Infinite Jest
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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Identifier: 9780349121086
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Le caractère fictionnel de la poésie lyrique
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 385-388
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Toward a comparative text grammar of visual and verbal semiosis: Material religious culture and Chicana fiction
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 717-720
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Christian Metz et la fiction
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.112.1-2.9
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
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Annotation: In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest oral study to contemporary experimental fiction. She uses these examples to prove that recent literature, far from heralding the final collapse of narrative, represents the epitome of a centuries long developmental process.
Identifier: 0415124824
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Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
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Focalization and point of view in fiction film
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.3-4.305
The Matrix of Narrative
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Other title information: Family Systems and Semiotics of Story
Annotation: The study which follows proposes a reconstruction of semiotic theory of narrative in light of certain current accounts – psychoanalytic, Proppian, feminist, deconstructive – of the story-telling process. Starting from classical semiotic assumptions – that fictional narrative constitutes a discursive field rather than simply a collocation of texts –, the discussion isolates relational patterns informing various modellings of the story process, outlines a framework for integrating these into a matrix of combinational possibilities and suggests on that basis some vantage points from which to address a number of still pending issues within narrative studies.
Identifier: 0899256244
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Denotation/connotation and verbal/nonverbal communication
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.125
On the null quantifier
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.49
Pain assessment: Model construction and analysis of words used to describe pain-like experiences
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 73-92
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.73
Politeness strategies in verbal interaction: An analysis of directness and indirectness in speech acts
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.59
Response preferences in narrative discourse
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.93
Review article
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.153
Sapir and the two tasks of language
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-48
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.1
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.u
An initial investigation of the usability of fictional conversation for doing conversation analysis
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.67.1-2.83
Commemorative essay
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.207
Commemorative essay II
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.223
Elementary units of an action sign system: The Hasta or hand positions of Indian classical dance
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.247
Forcefield analogy for communications involving movement of the head: An exercise in ecological semiotics
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.279
Guest Editorial
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.191
Review article
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.325
Semantics and the blind child
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.297
Transferts d’objets et groupe de Klein: Essai de formalisation en semiotique narrative greimasienne
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.313
Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel As a Literary Genre
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 3, Issue 1
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- 99-102
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A Cape Breton System of personal names: Pragmatic and semantic change
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.55
Cinema and semiosis
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.21
Commemorative essay. Roman Jakobson
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-20
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.1
Ecriture, peinture: Des calligrammes aux pictogrammes
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.123
La structure de la description réaliste dans la littérature européenne
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 95-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.95
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.199
Review article
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.137
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.u
What became of Eliza Doolittle? A case study of the sign in fiction
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.75