Menu Close

ISI Library

A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.

A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, proceedings papers, collection articles and semiotic research materials. Search across the full database; results are shown with pagination.

Clear
Advanced search
Showing 1–7 of 7 records
Book 2006.0

The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction

Marina Grishakova

Edition
1 edition

Literature Tartu University Press Available

View details

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.

Status: Available

Journal Article 1980

Aspects of the properties of formulations in natural conversations: Some instances analysed

J. C. HERITAGE; D. R. WATSON

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.245

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.245

Open source

Journal Article 1980

Compte rendu

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.319

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.319

Open source

Journal Article 1980

Hypnosis: Metaphorical encounters of the fourth kind

THEODORE R. SARBIN

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.195

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.195

Open source

Journal Article 1980

Interactive functions and limitations of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in natural conversation

FERNANDO POYATOS

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.211

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.211

Open source

Journal Article 1980

Placement of topic changes in conversation

DOUGLAS W. MAYNARD

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.263

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.263

Open source

Journal Article 1980

Un exemple d'application de la sémiologie comme test du discours: Le Système de controle des métaux précieux et l’exercice du pouvoir politique

BERNARD DELOCHE

In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.291

View details

Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.291

Open source