CONTENTS


HISTORY

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory


EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory

   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent

         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory

      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory

      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory

            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory

         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory

         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism

         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory

   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory


REGIONS

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia


AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE
:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory

      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA
:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory


TOPICS

 

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)

   Music
 

BEING


COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

   Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument
 

EDUCATION

 

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
   Ecocriticism

 

HUMAN BEING:
   Body:

      Gender (Feminist Theory)
      Race (Critical Race Theory)

      Sexuality (Queer Theory):

         Queer Critical Theory

   Mind:
     
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

   Self:
      Writing the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY
 

MORALITY:

   Ethical Criticism
 

RELIGION:
   Religion and Literature


NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
   Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry

   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   
Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION
:

   Culture
   Economics
  
History
   Law

   Politics
   Society
 

SPORTS
 


GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

 


ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
   Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
   Aesthetics / Critical Theory
 

 

JURIJ [YURI] M. LOTMAN (1922 - 1993)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    •  

  • Selected Individual Works:

      • Universe of the Mind: a Semiotic Theory of Culture.  Trans. Ann Shukman.  London: I. B. Tauris, 1990.  Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.

      • The Semiotics of Russian Culture.  Ed. Ann Shukman.  1984.

      • The Structure of Aesthetic Texts.  Trans. Ronald Vroon.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1977.

      • "The Content and Structure of the Concept of Literature."  PTL 1 (1976): 339-343.

      • Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture.  1975.

    • "."  Stat'i po tipologii kul'tury 2 (1973): 9-41.

      • "The Origin of Plot in the Light of Typology."  Trans. Julian Graffy.  Poetics Today 1.1-2 (1979): 161-184.

    • 1973.

      • Semiotics of Cinema.  Trans. Mark E. Suino.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1976.

    • 1972.

      • Analysis of the Poetic Text.  Trans. D. Barton Johnson.  Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1976.

    • 1970.

      • The Structure of the Artistic Text.  Trans. Gail Lenhoff and Ronald Vroon.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1977.

    • Sign Systems Studies 1 (1964).

      • Lectures on Structural Poetics

    • 1963.

      • On the Delimitation of Linguistic and Philological Concepts of Structure.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Halle, Morris, Krystyna Pomorska, Elena Semeka-Pankratov, Boris Uspenskij, eds.  Semiotics and the History of Culture: in Honor of Jurij Lotman.  1989.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Andrews, Edna.  Conversations With Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003.

    • Russian Literature 5 (1977).

    • Shukman, Ann.  Literature and Semiotics: a Study of the Writings of Yu. M. Lotman.  Elsevier North Holland, 1977.

On-Line:

WWW GATEWAYS

 


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