Category: Authors

The author examines the manifesto of anorexia “I don’t want to have a doll — I want to be a doll” in the framework of a social semiotic concept. The author sees this phenomenon as interdisciplinary problem that lies on the border of art, psychopathology and  thanatology philosophy. The methodological basis of the research is the art semiotic concepts, notion “celebrity anorexia” by E. Burke, the theory of performance by E. Fischer-Lichte, the concept  “an aesthetic object” of M.M. Bakhtin.

This text offers a comparative analysis of a lyric poem, The Dream (1841) by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov and a short story, Dreams (1886) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, two major Russian authors embedded in the rigid Russian imperial structures. I examine their dream concepts and figurations, and their  representations of various structures that permeate the human existence and human experience of the empire.
My analysis involve multiple semiotic references, specifically, a dialogue between the theories by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche, Samuel Weber, and more recent feminist theories by Shoshana Felman, Theresa de Lauretis, Judith Butler, Adriana Cavarero.

This review uses a linguistic study of traditional aboriginal language to introduce semiotic and anthropological perspectives on the origins of language

The article indicates that the study of the semantic-communicative component of hymns makes it possible to identify performative frameworks – “pillows”, on which the foundation of speech activity rests.

The text discusses the more recent intellectual/artistic dispersions from Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian cultures across the Central European territorial and cultural domains.