Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1922, Petrograd, Soviet Russia (now Saint Petersburg) — 1993, Tartu, Estonia
Soviet Union · Estonia
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Yuri Lotman was a Soviet literary scholar and semiotician, founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, who developed the influential concept of the 'semiosphere' — the semiotic space within which cultures produce meaning. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family in Petrograd, and despite antisemitic barriers in Soviet academia he built a leading school of cultural analysis at the University of Tartu in Estonia. His studies of Russian literature and culture reshaped the humanities.
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Literary & drama critic
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