Description
Book SynopsisConsists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.
Table of ContentsForeword - Eero Tarasti
Generalities
My 'Short Happy Life' in Finno-Ugric Studies - Thomas A. Sebeok
Sketch of a Finno-Ugric Semiotic - Vilmos Voigt
Metaphysical Contemplations — Finland and Eastern Thought - Henri Broms
Swedish-speaking Finns Between East and West - Henri Broms
A Mediator Between Russia and the West: V. Sesemann as Philosopher and Semiotician - Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
From Philosophy to Culture
Ontological Nihilism, or The Meaning of the So-called Finnish Passive Construction - Pauli Pylkko
Text and Intelligence - Kristian Bankov
Pierce, Rantala, and Theological Semiotics - Heikki Kirjavainen
La neige et le silence - Matthieu Guillot
Finland Among the Paradigms of National Anthems - Eero Tarasti
Invasion as an Object of Semiotics: Representing Invasion — Creating Invasion - Anti Randviir
Cultural Arbitrariness and Linguistic Bias - Niilo Kauppi
Approaches to Media Semiotics: Journalism in Social Context - Maarja Parl Lohmus
Ethnofuturism in Udmurtia - Viktor Shibanov
Signs in Human Behavior
Ethnic Identity in the Light of an Ancient Myth: Psychoanalytic and Semiotic Interpretations of the Finnish Kullervo-Legend - Heikki Majava
Signs and Meanings in Education - Tuomo Jamsa
Inside Out — From Verbal Imagery and Inner Voice to Verbal Hallucinations - Hannu Lauerma
Arts I: Music
Ethnomusicology and Media Reality - Erkki Pekkila
Music as Narrative Discourse - Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam
Jean Sibelius as an Icon of the Finns and Others: An Essay in Post-colonial Analysis - Eero Tarasti
Arts II: Theater and Cinema
Film and Reality - Ilkka Niiniluoto
Actors as Characters, Characters as Actors in Audiovisual Fiction - Henry Bacon
The Signs of the Player: A Solution - Kari Salosaari
Arts III: Literature and Verbal Signs
Problems of Reference in Description - Harri Veivo
The Lure of Etymology in the Poetry and Prose of Pentti Saarikoski - Hannu Riikonen
Rebellious Words: Avant-garde Literature and Theories of Formalism to Post-structuralism - Sinikka Tuohimaa
The Kanteletar as Poetic Text and Discourse in the Semiotics of Culture - Pirjo Kukkonen
The Poetic Legacy of the Eighties: In the Home of Human Voices and Touches - Immo Pekkarinen
Signs Between - Erja Hannula
Arts IV: Gastronomy
On Culinemes, Gastrophemes, and Other Signs of Cooking
