Marina Grishakova
Biographic Data
| ID | 983415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Grishakova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Grishakova |
| SIGNATURE | GRISHAKOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On narrative semiotics of impossible games
In his essay “The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory,” Hayden White notes: “That what cannot be explained is in principle capable of being understood [...] This understanding is nothing other than its representation in the form of a narrative” (1984: 30). For White, the phenomena resistant to causal explanation can still be grasped as meaningful in narrative terms. In this article I discuss “impossible games” as an intriguing…
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future
Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
Notes on narrative, cognition, and cultural evolution
Drawing on non-Darwinian cultural-evolutionary approaches, the paper develops a broad, non-representational perspective on narrative, necessary to account for the narrative “ubiquity” hypothesis. It considers narrativity as a feature of intelligent behaviour and as a formative principle of symbolic representation (“narrative proclivity”). The narrative representation retains a relationship with the “primary” pre-symbolic narrativity of the basic …
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy
1. The Russian Formalists as a Community Tomas Glanc 2. Bakhtin and his Circle Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan and Sergeiy Sandler 3. Prague Linguistic Circle Lubomir Dolezel 4. From Circles to the School (and Back Again) The Case of Polish Structuralism Adam Kola and Danuta Ulicka 5. The Greimassian Semiotic Circle Eric Landowski 6. Tel Quel: Theory and Practice Patrick ffrench 7. Tales out of (the Yale) School Joseph Hillis Miller 8. The Chicago School:…
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of “modeling” in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in (post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman’s conception of artistic …
Intermediality and Storytelling
Extending narratological analysis to media as varied as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, the essays gathered in this volume address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called; multimodal works'; and, what new forms of narr…
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Viktor Pelevin
Kettly Mars. Fado. Paris. Mercure de France. 2008. 110 pages. 12.50. isbn 978-2-7152-2853-5 In her thirdnovel, KettlyMars uses the rhythms of Portuguese fado music to depict the emotional reawakening of a divorced middle class woman, Anaise, who finds a new life, real or imagined, in a brothel in the slums of Port-au Prince, the Haitian capital. With her ex-husband now remarried to a younger woman and having at last succeeded in fatheringthe chil…
Social Risks and Challenges of the Post-Socialist Transition Period in Estonia: Analysis of Biographical Narratives
In research on social risks and insecurity qualitative methods have obvious advantages and successfully complement statistical quantitative approaches, which have been practiced for decades. This study is based on the thirty-two in-depth interviews collected in the period June 2003 to January 2004 for the project “Life Plans and Life Paths in the Post-Socialist Estonia.” The interviewees are representatives of the so-called “generation of winners…
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
Towards the semiotics of the observer
The problem of the observer and point of view is examined within the broad semiological and cognitive perspective. Structuralist narratology made an attempt of a formal-linguistic classification of points of view to avoid anthropomorphic-visual connotations inherent in narratological terminology. The alternative opportunity would be the usage of terms-metaphors as theoretical models. From the point of view of the observer, the process of text gen…
Metaphor and narrative
The paper examines linguistic, cognitive, communicative approaches to metaphor and its functioning in the narrative text. Special attention is paid to the problem of iconicity and the Wingensteinian notion of "aspect seeing" as relevant to the metaphor srudies. It is shown that the extended understanding of metaphor as "trope" or "figure" in the post-structuralist literary theory allows to see metaphor as a textual "interpretation machine". In th…
"V. Nabokov's "Bend Sinister: A social message or an experiment with time
The paper examines V. Nabokov's "strange" novel ''Bend Sinister". The fictional space of the novel is regarded as a process of interaction of different languages or different versions of reality. The philosopher Krug's story unrolls in the imaginary totalitarian state whose ideology combines the elements of fascism, communism and the language of mass psychology. At this level the text is identical with a "social message". The protagonist has to c…
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future
Social Risks and Challenges of the Post-Socialist Transition Period in Estonia: Analysis of Biographical Narratives
In research on social risks and insecurity qualitative methods have obvious advantages and successfully complement statistical quantitative approaches, which have been practiced for decades. This study is based on the thirty-two in-depth interviews collected in the period June 2003 to January 2004 for the project “Life Plans and Life Paths in the Post-Socialist Estonia.” The interviewees are representatives of the so-called “generation of winners…
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
"V. Nabokov's "Bend Sinister: A social message or an experiment with time
The paper examines V. Nabokov's "strange" novel ''Bend Sinister". The fictional space of the novel is regarded as a process of interaction of different languages or different versions of reality. The philosopher Krug's story unrolls in the imaginary totalitarian state whose ideology combines the elements of fascism, communism and the language of mass psychology. At this level the text is identical with a "social message". The protagonist has to c…
Metaphor and narrative
The paper examines linguistic, cognitive, communicative approaches to metaphor and its functioning in the narrative text. Special attention is paid to the problem of iconicity and the Wingensteinian notion of "aspect seeing" as relevant to the metaphor srudies. It is shown that the extended understanding of metaphor as "trope" or "figure" in the post-structuralist literary theory allows to see metaphor as a textual "interpretation machine". In th…
Towards the semiotics of the observer
The problem of the observer and point of view is examined within the broad semiological and cognitive perspective. Structuralist narratology made an attempt of a formal-linguistic classification of points of view to avoid anthropomorphic-visual connotations inherent in narratological terminology. The alternative opportunity would be the usage of terms-metaphors as theoretical models. From the point of view of the observer, the process of text gen…
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
Social Risks and Challenges of the Post-Socialist Transition Period in Estonia: Analysis of Biographical Narratives
In research on social risks and insecurity qualitative methods have obvious advantages and successfully complement statistical quantitative approaches, which have been practiced for decades. This study is based on the thirty-two in-depth interviews collected in the period June 2003 to January 2004 for the project “Life Plans and Life Paths in the Post-Socialist Estonia.” The interviewees are representatives of the so-called “generation of winners…
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Viktor Pelevin
Kettly Mars. Fado. Paris. Mercure de France. 2008. 110 pages. 12.50. isbn 978-2-7152-2853-5 In her thirdnovel, KettlyMars uses the rhythms of Portuguese fado music to depict the emotional reawakening of a divorced middle class woman, Anaise, who finds a new life, real or imagined, in a brothel in the slums of Port-au Prince, the Haitian capital. With her ex-husband now remarried to a younger woman and having at last succeeded in fatheringthe chil…
Intermediality and Storytelling
Extending narratological analysis to media as varied as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, the essays gathered in this volume address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called; multimodal works'; and, what new forms of narr…
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of “modeling” in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in (post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman’s conception of artistic …
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy
1. The Russian Formalists as a Community Tomas Glanc 2. Bakhtin and his Circle Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan and Sergeiy Sandler 3. Prague Linguistic Circle Lubomir Dolezel 4. From Circles to the School (and Back Again) The Case of Polish Structuralism Adam Kola and Danuta Ulicka 5. The Greimassian Semiotic Circle Eric Landowski 6. Tel Quel: Theory and Practice Patrick ffrench 7. Tales out of (the Yale) School Joseph Hillis Miller 8. The Chicago School:…
Notes on narrative, cognition, and cultural evolution
Drawing on non-Darwinian cultural-evolutionary approaches, the paper develops a broad, non-representational perspective on narrative, necessary to account for the narrative “ubiquity” hypothesis. It considers narrativity as a feature of intelligent behaviour and as a formative principle of symbolic representation (“narrative proclivity”). The narrative representation retains a relationship with the “primary” pre-symbolic narrativity of the basic …
Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future
On narrative semiotics of impossible games
In his essay “The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory,” Hayden White notes: “That what cannot be explained is in principle capable of being understood [...] This understanding is nothing other than its representation in the form of a narrative” (1984: 30). For White, the phenomena resistant to causal explanation can still be grasped as meaningful in narrative terms. In this article I discuss “impossible games” as an intriguing…
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