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Space-Time: A mythological geometry
Space-Time: A mythological geometry

Author(s): Jelena Grigorjeva
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: In the article the fundamental graphic models that are used by the cultural consciousness to bring about the abstract spheres of thought are analyzed. The problem of inter-semiotic, i.e. emblematic, interpretation of the categories of space and time is also considered. The models of the cross and pyramid are analyzed from the point of view of their ideological (transcending) function and of the mechanism of emblematizing the abstract notions of time and space. This approach helps understanding the general laws of cultural mentality and the process of emblematizing any meaning for the structuring and fixation purposes.

  • Issue Year: 35/2007
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 161-215
  • Page Count: 55
  • Language: English
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