Lotman and Cultural Studies : Encounters And Extensions

Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Referencing ix Introduction 3(38) ANDREAS SCH LE and JEREMY SHINE Power SEMIOTIC COLLISIONS AND THE ETHICS OF ESTRANGEMENT 1. Dante, Florenskii, Lotman: Journeying Then and Now through Medieval Space 41(18) DAVID BETHEA 2. Lotman's Other: Estrangement and Ethics in Culture and Explosion 59(25) AMY MANDELKER 3. Pushkin's "Andzhelo," Lotman's Insight into It, and the Proper Measure of Politics and Grace 84(31) CARYL EMERSON POLITICAL REALITIES AND RHETORICAL BOUNDARIES 4. Post-Soviet Political Discourse and the Creation of Political Communities 115(21) MICHAEL URBAN 5. State Power, Hegemony, and Memory: Lotman and Gramsci 136(23) MAREK STEEDMAN 6. The Ever-Tempting Return to an Iranian Past in the Islamic Present: Does Lotman's Binarism Help? 159(24) KATHRYN BABAYAN Margins and Selfhood SELF-REFLECTION AND THE UNDERGROUND 7. The Self, Its Bubbles, and Its Illusions: Cultivating Autonomy in Greenblatt and Lotman 183(25) ANDREAS SCH LE 8. Lotman's Karamzin and the Late Soviet Liberal Intelligentsia 208(21) ANDREI ZORIN ICONIC SELF-EXPRESSION 9. Bipolar Asymmetry, Indeterminacy, and Creativity in Cinema 229(19) HERBERT EAGLE 10. Posting the Soviet Body as Tabula Phrasa and Spectacle 248(51) HELENA GOSCILO NEGOTIATING THE EVERYDAY 11. Eccentricity and Cultural Semiotics in Imperial Russia 299(21) JULIE A. BUCKLER 12. Writing in a Polluted Semiosphere: Everyday Life in Lotman, Foucault, and de Certeau 320(25) JONATHAN H. BOLTON Afterword: Lotman without Tears 345(8) WILLIAM MILLS TODD III Bibliography 353(6) Contributors 359(4) Index 363