The intersemiotic space: Adrianopol in F. Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" St. Petersburg Cover Image

Интерсемиотическое пространство: Адрианополь в Петербурге „Преступления и наказания“ Ф.М. Достоевского
The intersemiotic space: Adrianopol in F. Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" St. Petersburg

Author(s): Peeter Torop
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the peculiarities of the intertextual space of culture and the means of its analysis. Level analysis, compositional analysis and chronotopical analysis are juxtaposed in the paper. Textual and intertextual chronotopical analyses are considered separately. Two aspects of textual processuality are juxtaposed: the history of text production and the role of the manuscript page structure as a reflection of the writer's style and mode of thinking (especially in the intersemiotic relationship between picture, drawing and word); the history of text reception, its intersemiotic translation into different sign systems and its existence in culture in a scattered state. In this connection the notions of the individual and mental text are juxtaposed. As an example a page of F.Dostoevsky's notebook is taken, where an intricate combination of picture, calligraphy and text offers an interesting information on the methods of formation of text conception.

  • Issue Year: 28/2000
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 116-133
  • Page Count: 18