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Review article Review article Semiotics of history -- historical cultural semiotics?* PETER GRZYBEK Whereas there has been an increasing number of studies on the history of semiotics, over the last few years, literature on the semiotics of history is still relatively scarce.1 It is not due to this fact alone that Moscow semiotician Boris A. Uspenskij's treatise Semiotik der Geschichte deserves our attention -- it provides us with deep insights into both the theoretical foundations of what a semiotics of history might look like, and concrete analyses as to the semiotics of Russian (cultural) history. The volume under review is a collection of articles, all previously published in Russian, which are translated into German for the first time.2 All in all, the result is a homogeneous book; the benevolent reader will overlook various redundant passages (partly word-for-word repetitions); s/he will also ignore that references can be found to Russian articles which, curiously enough, are included in the book itself; and s/he might perhaps even profit from seeing one and the same historical event interpreted from different perspectives in two (or even three) different chapters ... Mainly, it is the first study -- some readers will say, only the first study http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0037-1998
eISSN
1613-3692
DOI
10.1515/semi.1994.98.3-4.341
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Review article Semiotics of history -- historical cultural semiotics?* PETER GRZYBEK Whereas there has been an increasing number of studies on the history of semiotics, over the last few years, literature on the semiotics of history is still relatively scarce.1 It is not due to this fact alone that Moscow semiotician Boris A. Uspenskij's treatise Semiotik der Geschichte deserves our attention -- it provides us with deep insights into both the theoretical foundations of what a semiotics of history might look like, and concrete analyses as to the semiotics of Russian (cultural) history. The volume under review is a collection of articles, all previously published in Russian, which are translated into German for the first time.2 All in all, the result is a homogeneous book; the benevolent reader will overlook various redundant passages (partly word-for-word repetitions); s/he will also ignore that references can be found to Russian articles which, curiously enough, are included in the book itself; and s/he might perhaps even profit from seeing one and the same historical event interpreted from different perspectives in two (or even three) different chapters ... Mainly, it is the first study -- some readers will say, only the first study

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Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1994

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