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Boris Uspensky
Who
Boris Uspensky · Arts & Literature
What
Literary & drama critic
When
1937, Moscow, Soviet Union
Where
Russia · Italy
Biography
Boris Uspensky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
How & why
Boris Uspensky is a Russian semiotician, linguist and cultural historian who, with Yuri Lotman, founded the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics and wrote influentially on the 'poetics of composition' and point of view in narrative and art. His Jewish identity is not documented in mainstream biographies, though he appears on Jinfo.org's list of Jewish literary and drama critics.
Sources & external links
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics
Contributions & Sources
Literary & drama critic
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics
