Yuri Lotman

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Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман, Estonian: Juri Lotman) (28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School and is considered to be the first Soviet structuralist.

Works

  • École de Tartu, Travaux sur les systèmes de signes, textes choisis et présentés par Y. M. Lotman et B. A. Ouspenski, trans. Anne Zouboff, Bruxelles: Complexe, 1976, 254 p. (French)
  • Analysis of the Poetic Text, trans. D. Barton Johnson, Ann Arbor (Mich.): Ardis, 1976. (English)
  • The Structure of the Artistic Text, trans. Gail Lenhoff and Ronald Vroon, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1977. (English)
  • Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, trans. Ann Shukman, intro Umberto Eco, London & New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, xiii+288 p, 1990. (English)
    • La Sémiosphère, Paris: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 1999. (French)
  • Culture and Explosion [Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 1], trans. Wilma Clark, edited by Marina Grishakova, De Gruyter Mouton, 2009. (English)
    • L'Explosion de la culture, Paris: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2004. (French)
  • Non-Memoirs, trans. and annotated by Caroline Lemak Brickman, edited by Evgenii Bershtein, with an afterword by Caroline Lemak Brickman and Evgenii Bershtein, Dalkey Archive Press: Champaign, London, Dublin, 2014. (English)

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