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Type: scientific

Status: —

Author: Yuri M. Lotman

Tags: space semiotics text structuralism poetics plot modelling

Description: Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962 and first published in Russian in 1964 - this translated edition published in 1976. Lotman's analysis of the text (or theory of art, as in the artistic text) as a semiotic system subject to interpretive modelling and structural analysis. The core of the work contains a structural analysis of the poetic text on a range of levels and is followed by the problems arising in the analysis of the text in relationship to extra-textual structures....