Семиотика

Автор книги, изучая семиотику, определил её предметом семиотическую реальность, которая включает в себя знаки и знаковые системы, придуманные людьми. Семиотическая реальность возникает в процессе…

В книге Т. М. Николаевой (1933-2015) предлагается новый подход к анализу текста, основанный на «грамматике текста» в рамках Московской семиотической школы. Автор выступает против «традиционного л…

В юбилейный 15-й выпуск журнала «Немецкая филология в Санкт-Петербургском государственном университете» вошли исследования филологов-германистов из России, Республики Беларуси, Германии. Материал…

«Путешествие в окружающие миры животных и людей» (1934) и «Теория значения» (1940) – две революционные работы немецкого биолога и натурфилософа Якоба фон Икскюля (1864–1944). Их основные тезисы и…

Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor Offers an enlightening and accessible…

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day…

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archives or lib…

Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the c…

The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the …

The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied example…

A comprehensive overview of Slavoj ?i?ek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue t…

Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story r…

An enlightening introduction to the study of logic: its history, philosophical foundations, and formal structures Logic: Inquiry, Argument, and Order is the first book of its kind to frame the st…

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional …

Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he d…

Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twenti…

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 7…

Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation…

В книге высказывается гипотеза о происхождении невербальной коммуникации, использующей знаковые символы. Автор излагает материал на примере ткацких артефактов, которые используются в качестве сим…

Монография выдающегося ученого-литературоведа, основателя Тартуско-московской семиотической школы Ю. М. Лотмана – это исследование внутренней организации поэтического текста. В первой части излаг…