Culture and Semiotics: Notes on Lotman's Conception of Culture
2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/nlh.2001.0024
ISSN1080-661X
Autores Tópico(s)Translation Studies and Practices
ResumoYuri Lotman (1922-1993) started as a historian of Russian literature. The main focus of his interest in this phase of his career, after he started teaching at the University of Tartu in 1954, was the work of Alexander Radishchev, Nikolai Karamzin, and Peter Vyazemsky at the end of the eighteenth century, and the writers associated with the Decembrist movement. At this time he mastered all skills necessary for a research philologist: archival and detective techniques for tracing unknown or missing manuscripts, as well as textual and editorial activities. A considerable part of his time was taken up with biographical studies concerning the aforementioned writers. He remained faithful to his interest in biography in the subsequent period, when he became the leading figure in the Moscow-Tartu structural-semiotic school in the sixties.
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