Table of contents

- Peeter Torop - Introduction: Rereading of cultural semiotics (395-404)

- Julia Kristeva - Thinking about literary thought (405-417)

- Thomas G. Winner - How did the ideas of Juri Lotman reach the West? (419-427)

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Semiotics of culture

- Andreas Schönle - Lotman and cultural studies: The case for cross-fertilization (429-440)

- Leonid Tchertov - Spatial semiosis in culture (441-454)

- Sadeq Rahimi - Is cultural logic an appropriate concept? A semiotic perspective on the study of culture and logic (455-464)

- Irene Portis-Winner - Eric Wolf: the crosser of boundaries (465-484)

- Massimo Leone - Boundaries and identities in religious conversion: The mirror (485-501)

- Kestutis Nastopka - Two approaches to the myth of city foundations: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic (503-512)

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Theoretical semiotics

- Mihhail Lotman - Atomistic versus holistic semiotics (513-527)

- Marina Grishakova - Towards the semiotics of the observer (529-553)

- Peet Lepik - On universalism in connection with the interpretation of magic in the semiotics of Juri Lotman (555-572)

- Juri Lotman - Semiotics of the individual and society (573-576)

- Ülle Pärli, Eleonora Rudakovskaja - Juri Lotman on proper name (577-591)

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Semiotics of translation

- Peeter Torop - Translation as translating as culture (593-605)

- Bruno Osimo - On psychological aspects of translation (607-627)

- Stefano Garzonio - Mechanisms of adaptation “to our (Russian) customs” of Italian opera librettos (in Russian) (629-644)

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Semiotics of literature

- Mikhail Gasparov - Intertextual analysis today (in Russian) (645-651)

- Kati Lindström - Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku (653-676)

- Maija Könönen - ‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary (677-694)

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Semiotics of art

- Juri Lotman - Mask in an artistic world of Gogol, and the masks of - Anatoli Kaplan (in Russian) (695-705)

- Elize Bisanz - The abstract structure of the aesthetic sign (707-723)

- Linnar Priimägi - Pure visual metaphor: Juri Lotman’s concept of rhetoric in fine arts (725-741)

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Biosemiotics

- Marcello Barbieri - Organic codes: Metaphors or realities? (743-754)

- Stephen Pain - Biorhetorics: An introduction to applied rhetoric (755-772)

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Reviews

- Kalevi Kull - Copenhagen, Tartu, world: Gatherings in biosemiotics 2002 (773-775)