DOI: 10.46726/H.2026.1.1
The article performs a philosophical-anthropological shift in the interpretation of composition, moving its analysis from the level of formal description of the text's structure to the existential-semiotic level. Composition is conceptualized not as a static framework but as a dynamic process and material fixation of an act of auto-communication (I — I), through which the system of consciousness generates and transforms itself. Using literary works (Rushdie, Cabré, Proust) as examples, it demonstrates how compositional devices (repetition, mirroring, narrative instance) become organs of meaning-generation and cartography of internal dialogue. This thesis is further developed through a phenomenological analysis of an urban topos (using small Russian towns as a case study), revealing how space — through the bodily experience of ascent, anamorphosis of gaze, and materiality of memory — acts as a co-author of the performative act of self-awareness, turning the city into an event of continuous auto-communication. The proposed approach is productive in its interdisciplinarity, combining the methodologies of literary studies, semiotics, and urban studies. Its heuristic power lies in revealing the deep mechanisms of meaning-making common to the textual and spatial organization of human experience. Thus, the research contributes significantly to the philosophy of everyday life by demonstrating how acts of auto-communication, when fixed in composition, shape the very fabric of daily existence and selfhood.
For citation: Markov A.V., Shtayn O.A. The Map of Self-Dialogue: text and topos composition as an act of auto-communication, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2026, iss. 1, pp. 5—14.