Yuri Lotman

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman.

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

Kultura i vzryv, 1992.

• Stati po tipologii kultury, Tartu: Tartuskij gosudarstvennyj universitet, 1970, 105 pp. (Russian)
  • Studii de tipologie a culturii, trans. Radu Nicolau, intro. Mihai Pop, Bucharest: Univers, 1974. (Romanian)
  • Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, trans. Ann Shukman, intro. Umberto Eco, Indiana University Press, 1990, xiii+288 pp, PDF, IA, ARG. (English)
  • La Sémiosphère, Paris: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 1999. (French)

• Struktura khudozhestvennogo teksta, intro Thomas G. Winner, Providence: Brown University Press, 1971. (Russian)
  • The Structure of the Artistic Text, trans. Ronald Vroon, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1977, 300 pp, DJV. (English)

• Analiz poeticheskogo teksta. Struktura stikha, Leningrad: Prosveshchenie, 1972, 271 pp. (Russian)
  • La struttura del testo poetico, ed. Eridano Bazzarelli, Milan: Mursia, 1972. (Italian)
  • Analysis of the Poetic Text, trans. D. Barton Johnson, Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1976, 309 pp. (English)

• Семиотика кино и проблемы киноэстетики, 1973. (Russian)
  • Semiotics of Cinema, trans. Mark Suino, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1976. (English)
  • Introduzione alla semiotica del cinema, editor Pietro Montani, Rome: Officina, 1979. (Italian)

• 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)

• В школе поэтического слова: Пушкин, Лермонтов, Гоголь [In the school of a poetic word: Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol], Moscow: Prosveshcheniye [Просвещение], 1988. (Russian)

• Kultura i vzryv [Культура и взрыв], Moscow: Progress [Прогресс], 1992, 272 pp. [1] (Russian)
  • L'Explosion de la culture, Paris: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2004. (French)
  • Cultură şi explozie, trans. George Gheţu and Justina Bandol; intro. Livia Cotorcea, Piteşti: Paralela 45, 2004. (Romanian)
  • Culture and Explosion, trans. Wilma Clark, ed. Marina Grishakova, Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Non-Memoirs, trans. & annot. Caroline Lemak Brickman, ed. Evgenii Bershtein, afterw. Caroline Lemak Brickman and Evgenii Bershtein, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014. (English)

Literature

• V chest 70-letiya professora Yu.M. Lotmana. Sbornik statey [В честь 70-летия профессора Ю.М. Лотмана], Tartu: Eydos (ЭЙДОС), 1992. (Russian)

• Yu.M. Lotman i tartusko-moskovskaya semioticheskaya shkola [Ю.М. Лотман и тартуско-московская семиотическая школа], ed. A.D. Koshelev (А.Д. Кошелев), Moscow: Gnozis, 1994. (Russian)

• Moskovsko-tartuskaya semioticheskaya shkola. Istoriya, vospominaniya, razmyshleniya [Московско-тартуская семиотическая школа. История, воспоминания, размышления], ed. S.Yu. Neklyudov (С.Ю. Неклюдов), Moscow, 1998. (Russian)

• David M. Bethea, "Iurii Lotman in the 1980s: The code and its relation to literary biography", in Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s, ed. Arnold McMillin, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 2000, pp 9-32. (English)

• Edna Andrews, Conversations with Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition, University of Toronto Press, 2003. [2] (English)

• Andreas Schönle, editor, Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, PDF, ARG.

Links

• Lotman on Russian Wikipedia
• http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lotman.htm
• http://lib.ru/CINEMA/kinolit/LOTMAN/