Culture and Communication

Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian at the University of Bristol and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of four monographs and three edited volumes. His most recent monograph is On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite (2018), co-authored with Andrei Zorin. Benjamin Paloff is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His books include Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe and the poetry collections And His Orchestra and The Politics, and he is the translator, most recently, of Dorota Masłowska's Honey, I Killed the Cats.

Introduction
Translator's Note
PART ONE: SEMIOTICS
1. From Universe of the Mind
Autocommunication: "I" and "Other" as Addressees
Semiotic Space
The Idea of Boundary
2. From The Structure of the Artistic Text
"Noise" and Artistic Information
The Problem of Plot
3. From Culture and Explosion
The Interrupted and the Uninterrupted
Perspectives
Instead of Conclusions
4. Memory in a Culturological Light
5. The Language of Theater
PART TWO: CULTURAL HISTORY
6. The Role of Dual Models in the Dynamics of Russian Culture
The Symbolism of Petersburg and the Problems of Semiotics of the City
The Duel
A Woman's World
Notes