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The study of literatures beyond national borders is associated with the mythological school and Indo-European linguistics. The impulse behind this was the observation of striking similarities at the most varied levels between texts that until then had not been assumed to have anything in common. After that, all the researchers working in the schools that followed—the school of “borrowings,” the cultural-historical school, Nikolai Marr’s stage school, and others—dedicated their efforts to addressing the same question: explaining the similarity of names, motifs, plotlines, and images in works of culturally and historically distant literatures, mythologies, and folk poetry traditions.
Originally published as “K postroeniiu teorii vzaimodeitsviia kul’tur (semiotitcheskii aspekt),” Uchenye zapiski Tartuskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (= Trudy po romano-germanskoi filologii: literaturovedenie) 646, 1983: 92–113. The translation here is from Iurii Lotman, Semiosfera, 603–614. Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo—SPB, 2000.
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Even a list of general works on the theory of texts would be impossible due to their number. Most relevant for Dionýz Ďurišin and his concepts are the works of Jan Mukařovský and Mikuláš Bakoš, as well as the works of the Slovak research group led by František Miko.
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We are offering her a crudely approximate picture. In actuality, preceding the formula “an other of the opposite gender” is simply the demand for “another,” when there is still only gender, but reproduction requires union with another individual, although sexual differences between them are still absent.
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Lotman, J. (2019). Toward a Theory of Cultural Interaction: The Semiotic Aspect. In: Tamm, M. (eds) Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14710-5_5
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