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Into the Miracles
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Other title information: interpretačné sondy na predmet Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie
Annotation: University textbooks continuously accompany the reader with current examples of the dimensions of artistic communication and interpretation. While the previous volume, Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation, represented a modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, its subsequent continuation, Into the Miracles /interpretative probes on the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation/, expands on other reception and communication strategies. For students of the cultural studies study program, it is an exercise teaching material, complementary to the in-depth study of the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation in connection with some focal models of selected representatives of the so-called Nitra school. This time, the dominant focus of attention was completely narrowed to the international multi-genre site-specific festival in the countryside, Into the Miracles (July 1 - July 4, 2023), which was unique and special in several aspects. The concept of this event was a multi-day pilgrimage for miracles along an 80 km long walking route through the regions of south-central Slovakia. The festival thus provided an extraordinary experience of the journey/procession (of artistic communication as a journey). The event was ideal for cultural and aesthetic-scientific studies as an example of researching the laws of reception, artistic communication and interpretation, so to speak, in an outdoor environment with the dominant backdrop of the landscape and its picturesqueness, natural environment and overall rural color. At the same time, it offered an extremely diverse variability of the reception semiosis of artistic miracles by domestic and foreign creators, which were distributed across the country within the set hiking route. The multi-day pilgrimage for the sacred dimension of beauty also became an opportunity to perceive the narrative level of the entire festival, providing in its dramaturgy the uniqueness of scenes/phenomena of miracles and the need for its search or revitalization.
Identifier: 9788055820705
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Measuring Inter-subjective Agreement on Units and Attributions in Comics with Annotation Experiments
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 57-95
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.758
Multimodal Semiotics for the Analysis of Comics and Graphic Novels
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 11-56
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.757
Selbstpoetik in Millisekunden: Neue Formen des Tagebuchs in kritisch-soziologischer Sicht
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 3-4: Selbstoptimierung
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- 205-220
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i3-4.867
Visualising an Oral Epic: Lobacev’s Comic Book Tsar Dusan’s Wedding
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 97-120
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.767
Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie
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Other title information: vysokoškolské učebné texty
Annotation: University teaching texts provide students of the study program Culturology with a practically modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, which will guide them through several examples of reception and communication practice. The recapitulation sequence documents the story of a specific 2022/2023 semester cycle, partly of a monothematic nature. They are united by the concretization of one model of artistic communication and interpretation (chapter no. 1 Teaching texts/instruction sheets on reception aesthetics). The starting point is reception aesthetics honed and conceptually profiled at the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bratislava in Nitra, from which the texts of individual chapters are subsequently (referentially) created, embedded in the university pedagogical practice of the study of Culturology, and applied as a motif (chapter no. 2 Journeys of one semester cycle).
Identifier: 9788055820699
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Gestotexty
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Annotation: TJ Vjuga (1988) is a semiotext performer, a-poet, artist, photographer and editor. Collection GESTOTEXTY is his debut publication.
Identifier: 9788089550814
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Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: a distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 125-155
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0096
Sociosemiotics of Advertising: Experiences, Themes and Perspectives
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 153-170
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.822
Sociosemiotics: Theories, Explorations, Perspectives
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 105-132
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.820
Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
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Other title information: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure
Annotation: The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. The book concerns the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It briefly reviews the historical schools of modern semiotics and then focuses on the Saussurean theory of the language system, the principles of narrative analysis as developed by A. J. Greimas, and the extension of this theoretical framework to the understanding of communication and the social nature of semiotic systems. It emphasizes the operational aspects of semiotics and matters of methodology and techniques, including the initiative of quantitative analysis.
Identifier: 9783110991581
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‘Away’ gestures associated with negative expressions in narrative discourse in Syuba (Kagate, Nepal) speakers
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 37-59
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0163
<b>The use of semiotic resources in traffic policing</b>: a<b>n exploration of genre structure and exchanges in traffic accident handling in China</b>
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 169-202
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0149
A zoosemiotic approach to the transactional model of communication
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 39-62
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0052
A. J. Greimas in the world: travels, translations, transmissions
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 187-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0040
An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 305-324
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0079
Analyse sémiotique de l’index de livre : Étude de la construction complexe et unique d’un paratexte
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 229-279
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0036
Bühler’s organon model of communication: a semiotic analysis of advertising slogans
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 229-239
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0028
Complexes, rule-following, and language games: Wittgenstein’s philosophical method and its relevance to semiotics
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 63-100
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0113
Consciousness and mind in Peirce: distinctions and complementarities
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 105-128
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0118
Derrida’s “chimerical experimental exercise”: an ecolinguistic dream of a more biocentric language
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0027
Hotspots for textual dynamics: cultural semiotic approach to digital archives
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 387-407
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0001
Kubrick’s audible bodies: unseen subjectivities in <i>2001</i> and <i>The Shining</i>
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 281-303
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0105
On the blankness of blank-signs
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 123-139
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0014
On the bottomless lake of firstness: conjectures on the synthetic power of consciousness
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 129-152
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0120
Peirce’s legacy for contemporary consciousness studies, the emergence of consciousness from qualia, and its evanescence in habits
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 49-103
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0117
Peirce’s vocation for consciousness: an evolutionary account
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0123
Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 203-227
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0039
Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 249-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0097
Review of Conspiracy theories as a form of phatic communication
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 409-414
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0007
Semiotic analysis of symbolic logic using tagmemic theory: with implications for analytic philosophy
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 171-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0018
Semiotic hybridization in Persian poetry and Iranian music
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 275-310
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0096
Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 241-247
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0024
Sounds and gestures of linguistic reference: the endurance of reality in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 351-374
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0018
Surviving a natural disaster as a semiotic reformation of the self and worldview
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 353-386
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0130
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
The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 101-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0049
The element of surprise in Peirce’s double consciousness paradigm
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 11-47
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0122
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 17-37
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050
Toward a Peircean logic of meditation
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 153-170
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0119
What do hashtags afford in digital fashion communication? An exploratory study on Gucci-related hashtags on Twitter and Instagram
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 325-351
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0114
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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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
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Mapping Musical Signification
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Annotation: This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.
Identifier: 9783030524951
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Of Essence and Context
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Other title information: Between Music and Philosophy
Annotation: This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer’s and listener’s perceptions.
Identifier: 9783030144708
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Spaces and Meanings
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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9783030151676
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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Fast Times and Excellent Adventures
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Other title information: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie
Annotation: The book explores the history of the 1980's phenomena of the teen movie genre, showing the behind the scenes of select movies and actors as well as the cultural and social context.
Identifier: 9781472123725
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Passions of Our Time
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Rethinking literary education in the digital age
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 569-589
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.08
Text dynamics: Renewing challenges for semiotics of literature
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 143-167
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.07