Overview
- 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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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Juri Lotman (1922–1993), the Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultural theorists of the twentieth century, the founder of the well-known Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics. His works translated into English include Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (1990), Culture and Explosion (2009), The Unpredictable Workings of Culture (2013), and Non-Memoirs (2014).
Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at the School of Humanities in Tallinn University, Estonia. He is the co-editor of Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (2019) and Debating New Approaches to History (2018), and editor of Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015).
Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature (2016) and the translator of Juri Lotman's final monograph, The Unpredictable Workings of Culture (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History
Book Subtitle: Essays in Cultural Semiotics
Editors: Marek Tamm
Translated by: Brian James Baer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14710-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14709-9Published: 21 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14712-9Published: 21 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14710-5Published: 09 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 275
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Theory, Memory Studies, Cultural History, Cultural Heritage