University of Tartu, Department of Semiotics : Juri Lotman

28.2.1922 - 28.10.1993

A founder of semiotics of culture
and the founder of Department
of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

Lotman's texts

Semiotics of cinema (in Russian)
The origin of plot in the light of typology (in English) - from Poetics Today 1(1/2): 161-184 (1979).

Publications about Juri M. Lotman

Gunhild Agger - Intertextuality revisited. Canadian Aesthetics Journal 4 (1999).
Hilary Clark - The Universe of Interpretations. Semiotic Review of Books, 3(1): 6-8 (1992). [A review on Lotman and Eco]
Julia Kristeva - On Yury Lotman
Thomas A. Sebeok - The Estonian connection. Sign Systems Studies 26: 20-41 (1998).
Kalevi Kull & Mihhail Lotman - Semiotica Tartuensis: Jakob von Uexküll ja Juri Lotman (in Estonian)

Archives

Lotman's epistolary archive - letters from and to Lotman, stored in the Library of Tartu University; includes a detailed biography

The Juri Lotman Fund

The Lotman Scholarship

Bibliographies

A very complete bibliography
Complete list of English-language publications by Lotman
A list of Russian-language publications by Lotman
Lists of Lotman's publications in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
A short bibliography of his main writings

Other sites about Lotman

A page about Lotman (in Russian) - with a version in English
About Lotman Autobiography (in Russian)
15 articles by Lotman, and 8 about him (in Russian) - with a portrait [switch the character set into cyrillic]
Lotman-Institut für russische und sowjetische Kultur, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland
Lotman-Institut, other site
Symposium on Lotman at the University of Michigan, 1999
Lotman and translatability

Various sites on Lotman

Photos on Lotman and Tartu
Memoirs, by A. Rokhlenko
Lotman and the Problem of Artistic Space, a short text in the context of Boccaccio
Contents of the book 'Lotmanovskij Sbornik 1', ed. by E. V. Permjakov, Moskva: Izd-vo "IC-Garant", 734 p., 1995.
On Tartu-Moscow School - in Portugese

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