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Lotman and Cultural Studies Encounters and Extensions Edited by The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2006 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 1 3 5 4 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lotman and cultural studies : encounters and extensions / edited by Andreas Schönle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-22040-0 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Lotman, IU. M. (IUrii Mikhailovich), 1922– —Criticism and interpretation. I. Schönle, Andreas. P85.L68L67 2006 302.2092—dc22 2006008876 Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Referencing ix Introduction 3 and Power 1. Dante, Florenskii, Lotman: Journeying Then and Now through Medieval Space 41 2. Lotman’s Other: Estrangement and Ethics in Culture and Explosion 59 3. Pushkin’s “Andzhelo,” Lotman’s Insight into It, and the Proper Measure of Politics and Grace 84 4. Post-Soviet Political Discourse and the Creation of Political Communities 115 5. State Power, Hegemony, and Memory: Lotman and Gramsci 136 6. The Ever-Tempting Return to an Iranian Past in the Islamic Present: Does Lotman’s Binarism Help? 159 v vi Contents Margins and Selfhood - 7. The Self, Its Bubbles, and Its Illusions: Cultivating Autonomy in Greenblatt and Lotman 183 8. Lotman’s Karamzin and the Late Soviet Liberal Intelligentsia 208 - 9. Bipolar Asymmetry, Indeterminacy, and Creativity in Cinema 229 10. Post-ing the Soviet Body as Tabula Phrasa and Spectacle 248 11. Eccentricity and Cultural Semiotics in Imperial Russia 299 . 12. Writing in a Polluted Semiosphere: Everyday Life in Lotman, Foucault, and de Certeau 320 . Afterword: Lotman without Tears 345 Bibliography 353 Contributors 359 Index 363 This book would not have existed without the stubborn passion of Jeremy Shine, then a graduate student in political science at the Uni- versity of Michigan, who came to me to propose an interdisciplinary conference on Yuri Lotman. He was planning to use Lotman in his dis- sertation, he said, and hoped a conference would help resolve some questions of methodology he was struggling with. Imagine what would happen if every graduate student leapt into organizing a conference when he or she hit a conceptual roadblock. The symposium took place at the University of Michigan in 1999 under the title “The Works of Yuri Lotman in an Interdisciplinary Context: Impact and Applicabil- ity.” I remember distinctly vouching to myself that under no condition would I seek to publish the papers of the conference. So much for my pious intentions. Participants in the symposium, who clearly had en- joyed the whole affair, pushed hard. Chief among them was Amy Man- delker, to whom I am deeply indebted. It was in debates with her that the book project took shape and was first articulated on paper. We solic- ited several more articles to round out our concept, so much so that the final volume bears only a limited relationship to the original conference. The support of several friends and colleagues was critical. In partic- ular, David Bethea, Caryl Emerson, and William Mills Todd III offered their unfailing advice and steadfast encouragement. As is often the case, I don’t know how best to express my gratitude. It has been a treat to work with the University of Wisconsin Press. Steve Salemson provided his full backing to the volume and expertly shepherded it through its various stages. We were blessed with two ex- ceptionallythoroughreviewers,BorisGasparovandananonymousone, whose input greatly strengthened our contributions. Publication of the volume was supported by the Office of the Vice- President for Research; the College of Literature, Sciences, and the vii viii Acknowledgments Arts; the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies; and the De- partment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, all at the University of Michigan. These same units had also funded the original symposium. TransliterationofnamesisaccordingtotheLibraryofCongresstranslit- erationsystem,exceptfornamesthathaveanestablishedspellinginEn- glish.InkeepingwithotherpublicationsofLotman’sworksinEnglish, wetransliteratedhisfirstnameasYuri.WerefertoLotman’stranslated workswheneverpossible.Toavoidrepeatingineachchapterthefullref- erenceforthesamewidelyquotedbooksorarticlesbyLotman,wecite onlytheirtitles.Fullreferencescanbefoundinthebibliography. ix
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