Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Referencing
Introduction
Power
1. Dante, Florenskii, Lotman: Journeying Then and Now through Medieval Space
2. Lotman’s Other: Estrangement and Ethics in Culture and Explosion
3. Pushkin’s “Andzhelo,” Lotman’s Insight into It, and the Proper Measure of Politics and Grace
4. Post-Soviet Political Discourse and the Creation of Political Communities
5. State Power, Hegemony, and Memory: Lotman and Gramsci
6. The Ever-Tempting Return to an Iranian Past in the Islamic Present: Does Lotman’s Binarism Help?
Margins and Selfhood
7. The Self, Its Bubbles, and Its Illusions: Cultivating Autonomy in Greenblatt and Lotman
8. Lotman’s Karamzin and the Late Soviet Liberal Intelligentsia
9. Bipolar Asymmetry, Indeterminacy, and Creativity in Cinema
10. Post-ing the Soviet Body as Tabula Phrasa and Spectacle
11. Eccentricity and Cultural Semiotics in Imperial Russia
12. Writing in a Polluted Semiosphere: Everyday Life in Lotman, Foucault, and de Certeau
Afterword: Lotman without Tears
Bibliography
Contributors
Index