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"Soviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive approach to literary and cultural studies and Universe of the Mind represents a summation of the intellectual career of the man who has done most to guarantee this." -Slavic and East European Journal

"The Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive. . . . will have enormous influence on semiotic discourse." -Journal of Communication

This seminal text in cultural semiotics represents a summation of Soviet semiotician Yuri Lotman's distinguished intellectual career. Addressing three main areas-meaning and the text; the concept of the semiosphere; and semiotics from the point of view of history-Lotman presents here the most complete and broadly ambitious theory of culture and language yet to emerge from the field of semiotics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346178 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 302 pages

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About the Author
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.

Customer Reviews

translation as communication
in these essays the founder of the Tartu School of semiotics tells us about individual cultures and collective cultures, and the communication between them is viewed in terms of inter-cultural translation.
It's very useful for all researchers - like myself - who investigate translation from a semiotic point of view.