Yuri Lotman quotes
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“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”
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“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.”
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“Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.”
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“Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.”
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“A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.”
-- Yuri Lotman
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”
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Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
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“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.”
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