Memória

Este ensaio analisa como a categoria Memória percorre a produção teórica de Lotman. O pensador russo analisa uma nova teoria da memória, que ele desenvolve como parte essencial da cultura concebida como um sistema semiótico, conceito desenvolvido nas obras da escola Tártu-Moscou. Visando descrever as técnicas de autointerpretação e automodelagem (transformação, tradução, transcodificação) por meio do qual uma cultura tenta se estabilizar.This essay analyzes how the Memory category runs through Lotman’s theoretical production. The Russian thinker analyzes a new theory of memory that he develops as an essential part of culture conceived as a semiotic system, a concept developed in the works of the Tartu-Moscow school. Aiming to describe the techniques of self-interpretation and self-modeling (transformation, translation, transcoding) through which a culture tries to stabilize itself

Fantazija versus mimezis. O diskurse "ložnoj" obraznosti v evropejskoj literaturnoj teorii

This collection brings together the articles dedicated to the 60th birthday of Professor Wolf Schmid, one of the foremost literary scholars of our times who made a crucial contribution to a wide range of scholarly fields: narratology, poetics, history of Russian and Slavic literature, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. The contributors form a distinguished international group of prominent scholars whose essays in this volume further develop Wolf Schmid\u27s narratological theory, shed new light on major works of literature and offer fascinating new insights into various periods of literary history.This collection brings together the articles dedicated to the 60th birthday of Professor Wolf Schmid, one of the foremost literary scholars of our times who made a crucial contribution to a wide range of scholarly fields: narratology, poetics, history of Russian and Slavic literature, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. The contributors form a distinguished international group of prominent scholars whose essays in this volume further develop Wolf Schmid\u27s narratological theory, shed new light on major works of literature and offer fascinating new insights into various periods of literary history

Ricardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr, Nina Weller (ed.): Interventionen in die Zeit : Kontrafaktisches Erzählen und Erinnerungskultur

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Russia’s Iconoclasms

Two iconoclasms took place in twentieth-century Russian history: the iconoclasm after the October revolution, and the iconoclasm after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. These two (ideologically opposite) phases of iconoclastic actions (dismantling, destruction) were incited by programmes concerning the abolition of tsarist monuments of 1918 and met by controversial reactions to the removal of the statues of the former Soviet politicians in the 1990s. The revolutionary demolition of the symbols of the imperial past was executed in accordance with a clear-cut plan and included the erection of new monuments for outstanding communist activists. The official aim of the post-soviet removal of these monuments, to delete traces of a problematic past, was confronted with a revitalized communist ideology on the one hand and with the reaction of the Human Rights Organization Memorial on the other, which criticized the insufficient demolition of soviet symbols. This multifaceted situation is complicated by the reconstruction of destroyed pre-revolutionary monuments of Russian (predominantly religious) history.publishe

Cultural memory and the role of literature

The history of mnemonic concepts encompasses utopian and sceptical views that produce either a hypertrophic memory or denounce any representation as false. Each literary text incorporates or stores other texts, thus mnemonic space unfolds between and within texts. In storing and accumulating cultural data, the literary text in its intertextual dimension functions as part of cultural memory. A fantastic text points to a silenced repressed memory, confronting culture with its oblivion. Yet the fantastic in restoring the displaced and vanished parts of culture is not merely a mnemonic memory: its speculative potential strives for arbitrary creations that erase the accepted mnemonic imagery.