Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History
Essays in Cultural Semiotics
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This volume brings together a selection of Juri Lotman’s late essays, published between 1979 and 1995. While Lotman is widely read in the fields of semiotics and literary studies, his innovative ideas about history and memory remain relatively unknown. The articles in this volume, most of which are appearing in English for the first time, lay out Lotman’s semiotic model of culture, with its emphasis on mnemonic processes. Lotman’s concept of culture as the non-hereditary memory of a community that is in a continuous process of self-interpretation will be of interest to scholars working in cultural theory, memory studies and the theory of history.
This volume brings together a selection of Juri Lotman’s late essays, published between 1979 and 1995. While Lotman is widely read in the fields of semiotics and literary studies, his innovative ideas about history and memory remain relatively unknown. The articles in this volume, most of which are appearing in English for the first time, lay out Lotman’s semiotic model of culture, with its emphasis on mnemonic processes. Lotman’s concept of culture as the non-hereditary memory of a community that is in a continuous process of self-interpretation will be of interest to scholars working in cultural theory, memory studies and the theory of history.
Brings together, for the first time, Juri Lotman’s most important articles in the field of cultural theory, memory studies and theory of history Offers a comprehensive introduction to Lotman’s theory of cultural memory Demonstrates that Lotman was one of the first to identify memory as a major subject of cultural studies and the first to propose a general theory of cultural memory
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Marek Tamm
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“Like any field, memory studies needs an accurate and comprehensive collective memory, and Juri Lotman’s brilliant contributions have not yet received the attention they deserve. This compendium, however, does not just fill a lacuna in our understanding of the field’s past, but will serve as a powerful force for its future.” (Jeffrey K. Olick, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia, USA)
“This long-overdue collection makes available to English readers key essays by one of the most important cultural theorists of the twentieth century. It will rewrite the history of memory studies and be indispensable reading for all scholars interested in the role of memory in culture.” (Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
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