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Elementa:
The Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics
Aims and Scope:
Elementa proposes the development of a new branch of semiotics: the science of cultural symbols and texts in its relationship to Slavic studies. It continues and develops investigations begun by the Prague circle, the Moscow-Tartu school of semiotics and their predecessors. The journal publishes articles on general problems of sign systems; evaluates the results of the comparison of different semiotic systems and texts in their relationship to Slavic traditions; opens up new archival materials that bear on the history of semiotic systems and semiotic historiography; and includes "miscellanea", i.e. short notes and comments to various texts. The semiotic legacy of those scholars from different Slavic and other Eastern and Central European countries whose work is not yet sufficiently known to a Western audience due to linguistic barriers and historical obstacles is emphasized.
Elementa gives special attention to:
- General problems of sign and culture
- Semiotics of texts
- Slavic Avant-Garde
- Russian cultural history
- Slavs and other peoples of Eurasia
- Slavic archival materials
- Topical themes highlighting single writers
- influential scholars
- important semiotic problems
A selection of papers:
- On the Etymology of Latin Elementa, Vyacheslav Ivanov
- General Problems of Sign and Culture:
Language, Reality, Culture and Semiotic Modelling, Henrik Birnbaum
On the European (Re)discovery of Shamans, Carlo Ginzburg
- The Avant-Garde and Slavic Traditions:
Trans-Sense as a Signifier and as Signified in Non-Futurist Texts, Omry Ronen
- Slavic Folklore and Literature:
Russian Calendar Prose: The Yuletide Story, Yelena Dushechkina
Khlebnikov's Solar Myth Reexamined, Henryk Baran
- Slavic Archives:
East and West: Tiutchev's Political Memorandum Rediscovered (Preliminary Notes), Alexander Ospovat
- Historia Sub Specie Semioticae:
The Rhetoric of Representation of Political Leaders in Soviet Culture, Mikhail Yampolsky
Contact:
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA
115 Kinsey Hall, 405 Hilgand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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