Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he applied his mind to a wide array of disciplines, from aesthetics to literary and cultural history, narrative theory to intellectual history, cinema to mythology. This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
| ISBN: | 9781644693865 |
| Publication date: | 8th October 2020 |
| Author: | Yuri Lotman |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 254 pages |
| Series: | Cultural Syllabus |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Comparative literature |