
Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2009
Pages: 191-214
Reihe: Biosemiotics
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402096495
Volle Referenz:
, "Excerpts from universe of the mind", in: Essential readings in biosemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2009


Excerpts from universe of the mind
a semiotic theory of culture
pp. 191-214
in: , Essential readings in biosemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstrakt
By the time that Thomas A. Sebeok ventured into the Soviet-held city of Tartu, Estonia to meet with the émigré Russian semiotician Juri Lotman in 1970, a rich half-century's worth of semiotic scholarship had been steadily accruing behind the Iron Curtain" under conditions that would have been barely imaginable to Lotman's academic counterparts in the West. Born five years after the Bolshevik revolution in Petrograd, Russia on February 28, 1922, Lotman entered Leningrad State University in 1939 to study "philology" under the renowned literary analysts Boris Eichenbaum (1886–1959) and Vladimir Propp (1895–1970). Eichenbaum and Propp had come from a long tradition of Russian "formalist" literary analysis whose interest in pre-Revolutionary texts and folklore, and whose belief that literary structure was not strictly the product of Marxist historical dialectic, was officially outlawed under Stalin's reign. Indeed, to the extent that the tenets of Literary Formalism were incompatible with those of Soviet Realism, avocation of the former "was a heresy that could lead to deportation to Siberia" (Liukkonen 2008: o.l.).
Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2009
Pages: 191-214
Reihe: Biosemiotics
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402096495
Volle Referenz:
, "Excerpts from universe of the mind", in: Essential readings in biosemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2009