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This bibliography lists all known English-language publications by Juri M. Lotman (including in co-authorship), in chronological order.
In case of any corrections, please mail to us. The bibliography has been compiled by Kalevi Kull.

 
 
 

Uspenskij B. A., Ivanov V. V., Toporov V. N., Pjatigorskij A. M., Lotman Ju. M. 1973. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts). In: Eng, Jan van der and Grygar, Mojmir (eds.), Structure of Texts and Semiotics of Culture. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1-28.

Lotman Ju. M. 1973. Different cultures, different codes. Times Literary Supplement, Oct. 12, 1213-1215.

Lotman Y. 1974. The sign mechanism of culture. Semiotica 12(4): 301-305.

Lotman Jury M. 1974. On some principal difficulties in the structural description of a text. Linguistics 121: 57-63.

Lotman Y. 1974. Analysis of a poetic text: The structure of poetry [Excerpt]. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 10(2): 3-41.

Lotman Y. 1974. Observations on the structure of the narrative text. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 10(4): 75-81.

Lotman Y. 1974. On the mythological code of plotted texts. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 10(4): 82-87.

Lotman Y. 1974. The individual creative career and the typology of culture codes. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 10(4): 88-90.

Lotman Y. 1975. Myth _ name _ culture. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 11(2/3): 17-46.

Lotman Y. 1975. Theatre and theatricality in the order of early nineteenth century culture. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 11(2/3): 155-185.

Lotman Y. 1975. On the metalanguage of a typological description of culture. Semiotica 14(2): 97-123.

Lotman Y. 1975. Notes on the structure of a literary text. Semiotica 15(3): 199-205.

Lotman, J. M. 1975. The discrete text and iconic text: Some remarks on the structure of narrative. New Literary History 6(2): 333-338.

Lotman J. M. 1975. Point of view in a text. New Literary History 6(2): 339-352.

Lotman Jurij M.; Uspenskij B.A.; Ivanov, V.V.; Toporov, V.N. and Pjatigorskij, A.M. 1975. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts). In: Sebeok Thomas A. (ed.), The Tell-Tale Sign: A Survey of Semiotics. Lisse (Netherlands): The Peter de Ridder Press, 57-84.

Lotman, Ju. M.; Uspenskij, B. A.; Ivanov, V. V.; Toporov, V. N.; Pjatigorskij, A. M. 1975. Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures (as Applied to Slavic Texts). . Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press, 29 p.[Reprinted from: Sebeok Thomas A. (ed.), The Tell-Tale Sign: A Survey of Semiotics, p. 57-83.]

Lotman Y. 1975. Observations on the structure of the narrative text. The Soviet Review 14(2): 59-65.

Lotman Y. 1975/1976. Theater and theatricality in the order of early nineteenth century culture. The Soviet Review 16(4): 53-83.

Lotman Iu. M. 1976. Analysis of the Poetic Text. (Transl. by D. Barton Johnson.) Ann Arbor (Mich.): Ardis, 309 p.

Lotman Jurij 1976. Semiotics of Cinema. (Transl. by Mark E. Suino.) (Michigan Slavic Contributions 5.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 106 p.

Lotman Y. 1976. Culture and information. Dispositio: Revista Hispánica de Semiótica Literaria 1(3): 213-215. (Dept. of Romance Lang., Univ. of Michigan).

Lotman Y. 1976. O. M. Freidenberg as a student of culture. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 12(2): 3-11:

Lotman Y. 1976. On the reduction and unfolding of sign systems (The problem of "Freudianism and semiotic culturology"). Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 12(2): 44-52.

Lotman Y. 1976. Gogol' and the correlation of "the culture of humor" with the comic and serious in the Russian national tradition. Soviet Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations 12(2): 40-43.

Baran, Henryk (ed.) 1976. Semiotics and Structuralism: Readings from the Soviet Union. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press. (Translated by William Mandel, Henryk Baran, and A. J. Hollander.) xxvi+369.
[This includes:]

Lotman Jurij, Uspenskij Boris A. 1976. Myth Ñ name Ñ culture. In: ibidem, 3_32.

Lotman Jurij 1976. Theater and theatricality in the order of early nineteenth century culture. In: ibidem, 33-63.

Lotman Jurij 1976. O. M. Freidenberg as a student of culture. In: ibidem, 257-268.

Lotman Jurij 1976. Gogol' and the correlation of "the culture of humor" with the comic and serious in the Russian national tradition. In: ibidem, 297-300.

Lotman Jurij 1976. On the reduction and unfolding of sign systems (The problem of "Freudianism and semiotic culturology"). In: ibidem, 301-309.

Lotman Y. 1976. The content and structure of the concept of "literature". PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1(2): 339-356.

Lotman Y. 1976. The structure of ideas in Pushkin's poem "Andzhelo". In: Poetry and Prose. (Russian Poetics in Translation 2.) Colchester, Oxford, 66-84.

Lotman Yu. M. 1976. The modelling significance of the concepts "end" and "beginning" in artistic texts. (Rosslyn, Wendy, trans.) In: O'Toole, Lawrence Michael; Shukman, Ann (eds.), General Semiotics. (Russian Poetics in Translation 3.) Oxon Publishing, 7-11.

Lotman Jurij 1977. The Structure of the Artistic Text. Translated from the Russian by Gail Lenhoff and Ronald Vroon. (Michigan Slavic Contributions 7.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. 300 p.

Lucid, Daniel P. (ed.) 1977. Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[This includes:]

Lotman Y. 1977. Primary and secondary communication-modelling systems. In: ibidem, 95-98.

Lotman Y. 1977. Two models of communication. In: ibidem, 99-101.

Lotman Y. 1977. Problems in the typology of texts. In: ibidem, 119-124.

Lotman Y. and Pjatigorskij, A. M. 1977. Text and function. In: ibidem, 125-135.

Lotman Y. 1977. The structure of the narrative text. In: ibidem, 193-197.

Lotman Y. 1977. Problems in the typology of culture In: ibidem, 213-221.

Lotman Y. 1977. Numerical semantics and cultural types. In: ibidem, 227-231.

Lotman Y., Uspenskij Boris A. 1977. Myth Ñ name Ñ culture. In: ibidem, 233-252.

Lotman Jurii 1977. The dynamic model of a semiotic system. Semiotica 21(3/4): 193-210.

Lotman Y. 1977. The problem of meaning in secondary modeling systems. New Literary History 8: 22-37.

Lotman Y., Uspenskij Boris A. 1978. Myth _ name _ culture. Semiotica 22(3/4): 211-233.

Lotman, Yuri and Uspensky, B. A. 1978. On the semiotic mechanism of culture. New Literary History 9(2): 211-232.

Lotman Y., Piatigorsky A. M. 1978. Text and function. New Literary History 9(2): 233-244.

Lotman Y. 1978. Theme and plot: The theme of cards and the card game in Russian literature of the nineteenth century. PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 3(3): 455-492.

Lotman Yury 1978. Language and reality in the early Pasternak. In: Erlich V. (ed.), Pasternak: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs (N. J.): Prentice-Hall, 21-38.

Lotman Y. 1979. Culture as collective intellect and the problems of artificial intelligence. In: O'Toole, Lawrence Michael and Shukman, Ann (eds.), Dramatic Structure: Poetic and Cognitive Semantics. (Russian Poetics in Translation 6.) Oxford: Holdan Books, 84-96.

Lotman Y. 1979. The future for structural poetics. Poetics 8(6): 501-507.

Lotman Y. 1979. The origin of plot in the light of typology. Poetics Today 1(1/2): 161-184.

Lotman Y. 1980. The natural language: Interrelationship in the mechanism of verse. In: Smith G. S. (ed.), Metre, Rhythm, Stanza, Rhyme. [Russian Poetics in Translation 7?] University of Essex, 86-89.

Lotman Y. 1981. On the language of animated cartoons. In: O'Toole, Lawrence Michael and Shukman, Ann (eds.), Film Theory and General Semiotics. (Russian Poetics in Translation 8.) Oxford: Holdan Books (RPT Pub.), 36-39.

Lotman Jurij 1981. Semiotics of Cinema. (Transl. by Mark Suino.) (Michigan Slavic Contributions.) Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan. 106 p.

Lotman Y. 1982. The text and the structure of its audience. New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 14(1): 81-87.

Lotman Jurij M., Uspenskij Boris A. 1984. The Semiotics of Russian Culture. Edited by Ann Shukman (Michigan Slavic Contributions 11.) Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, xiv+341.
[This includes:]

Lotman Jurij M., Uspenskij Boris A. 1984. Authors' introduction. In: ibidem, ix-xiv.

Lotman Jurij M., Uspenskij Boris A. 1984. The role of dual models in the dynamics of Russian culture (up to the end of the eighteenth century). In: ibidem, 3-35.

Lotman Jurij M., Uspenskij Boris A. 1984. New aspects in the study of early Russian culture. In: ibidem, 36-52.

Lotman Jurij M., Uspenskij Boris A. 1984. Echoes of the notion 'Moscow as the thirst Rome' in Peter the Great's ideology. In: ibidem, 53-67.

Lotman J. M. 1984. The decembrist in everyday life. In: ibidem, 71-123.

Lotman J. M. 1984. 'Agreement' and 'self-giving' as archetypal models of culture. In: ibidem, 125-140.

Lotman J. M. 1984. Theater and theatricality in the order of early nineteenth century culture. In: ibidem, 141-164.

Lotman J. M. 1984. The stage and painting as code mechanisms for cultural behavior in the early nineteenth centrury. In: ibidem, 165-176.

Lotman J. M. 1984. Gogol's Chlestakov: The pragmatics of a literary character. In: ibidem, 177-212.

Lotman J. M. 1984. Gogol's 'Tale of captain Kopejkin', reconstruction of the plan and ideo-compositional function. In: ibidem, 213-230.

Lotman J. M. 1984. The poetics of everyday behaviour in Russian eighteenth-century culture. In: ibidem, 231-256.

Nakhimovsky, Alexander D. and Nakhimovsky, Alice Stone (eds.) 1985. The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History: Essays by Iurii M. Lotman, Lidia Ia. Ginsburg, Boris A. Uspenskii. Ithaca, New York, London: Cornell University Press.
[This includes:]

Lotman, Iurii M. and Uspenskii, Boris A. 1985. Binary models in the dynamics of Russian culture. In: ibidem, 30-66.

Lotman Iurii M. 1985. The poetics of everyday behaviour in eighteenth-century Russian culture. In: ibidem, 67-94.

Lotman Iurii M. 1985. The Decembrist in daily life (Everyday behavior as a historical-psychological category). In: ibidem, 95-149.

Lotman Iurii M. 1985. Concerning Khlestakov. In: ibidem, 150-187.

Lotman Jurij M. 1987. Semiotics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Livstegn: Tidsskrift for Norsk forening for semiotikk [Proceedings of the first symposium "Semiotics in Theory and Practice", 2-3 Oct. 1986, Bergen (Norway): Norwegian Association for Semiotic Studies] 3: 9-11. [transl. by Jostein Bortnes.]

Lotman Jurij M. 1987. On the contemporary concept of text. Livstegn: Tidsskrift for Norsk forening for semiotikk [Proceedings of the first symposium "Semiotics in Theory and Practice", 2-3 Oct. 1986, Bergen (Norway): Norwegian Association for Semiotic Studies] 3: 159-163. [transl. by Jostein Bortnes.]

Lotman Juri 1988. Natural environment and information. In: Kull, Kalevi and Tiivel, Toomas (eds.), Lectures in Theoretical Biology. Tallinn: Valgus, 45-47.

Lotman Y. 1988. The structure of Eugene Onegin. In: Hoisington, Sona Stephan, and Arndt, Walter (eds.), Russian Views of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. (Verse passages translated by Walter Arndt, foreword by Caryl Emerson.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 91-114.

Lotman Y. 1988. The transformation of the tradition generated by Onegin in the subsequent history of the Russian novel. In: Hoisington, Sona Stephan, and Arndt, Walter (eds.), Russian Views of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. (Verse passages translated by Walter Arndt, foreword by Caryl Emerson.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 169-177.

Lotman Y. M. 1988. Text within a text. Soviet Psychology 26(3): 32-51.

Lotman Yuri, Broms Henri 1988. Greetings to the symposium. An interview with Yuri Lotman in Helsinki, June 1987. (The interviewer Henri Broms, translated by Eugene Holman.) In: Broms Henri and Kaufmann Rebecca (eds.), Semiotics of Culture: Proceedings of the 25th Symposium of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, 27th-29th July, 1987. Helsinki: Arator, 115-123.

Lucid, Daniel P. (ed.) 1988. Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology. (New foreword by T.A.Sebeok.) Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[The new edition of Lucid 1977. This includes:]

Lotman Y. 1988. Primary and secondary communication-modelling systems. In: ibidem, 95-98.

Lotman Y. 1988. Two models of communication. In: ibidem, 99-101.

Lotman Y. 1988. Problems in the typology of texts. In: ibidem, 119-124.

Lotman Y. and Pjatigorskij, A. M. 1988. Text and function. In: ibidem, 125-135.

Lotman Y. 1988. The structure of the narrative text. In: ibidem, 193-197.

Lotman Y. 1988. Problems in the typology of culture In: ibidem, 213-221.

Lotman Y. 1988. Numerical semantics and cultural types. In: ibidem, 227-231.

Lotman Y., Uspenskij Boris A. 1988. Myth Ñ name Ñ culture. In: ibidem, 233-252.

Lotman Yu. M. 1989. The semiosphere. Soviet Psychology 27(1): 40-61.

Lotman Jurij 1990. Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. (Translated by Ann Shukman, introduction by Umberto Eco.) London & New York: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. xiii+288 p.

Lotman Y. M. 1990. Artistic space in Gogol's prose. Russian Literature 24, 199-241.

Lotman Y. 1991. Semiotics and the historical sciences. In: Göranzon, Bo and Florin, Magnus (eds.), Dialogue and Technology: Art and Knowledge. (The Springer Series of Artificial Intelligence and Society.) New York, London: Springer, 165-180.

Lotman Y. 1991. Technological progress as a problem in the study of culture. Poetics Today 12(4): 781-800.

Lotman Yuri M. 1994. The text within the text. [Translated by Jerry Leo and Amy Mandelker.] Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) 109(3): 377-384

Lotman Iu. 1994. Theses towards a semiotics of Russian culture. Elementa 1(3): 219-227.

Lotman Juri 1997. Culture as a subject and an object in itself. Trames 1(1): 7-16

Uspenskij B. A., Ivanov V. V., Toporov V. N., Pjatigorskij A. M., Lotman Ju. M. 1998. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to the Slavic texts). Tartu Semiotics Library 1: 33-60.
[Faximile of 1973 publication.]

Lotman Jurij 1999. The truth as lie in Gogol's poetics. In: Spieker Sven (ed.), Gogol: Exploring Absence. Negativity in 19th Century Russian Literature. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers.

Lotman Yuri M. 2001. Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. (Translated by Ann Shukman, introduction by Umberto Eco.) London & New York: I.B.Tauris Publishers, xiii+288.
[The new edition of Lotman 1990.]

Lotman Juri 2002. Semiotics of the individual and society. Sign Systems Studies 30(2): 573-576.

Uspenskij B. A., Ivanov V. V., Toporov V. N., Pjatigorskij A. M., Lotman Ju. M. 2003. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts). In: Gottdiener, Mark; Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin; Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph. (eds.), Semiotics, vol. 1. London: SAGE Publications, 293-316. [Republication of 1973.]

Lotman Juri M. 2003. On the metalanguage of a typological description of culture. In: Gottdiener, Mark; Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin; Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph. (eds.), Semiotics, vol. 3. London: SAGE Publications, 101-125. [Republication of 1975.]

Lotman Juri 2005. On the semiosphere. (Translated by Wilma Clark.) Sign Systems Studies 33(1): 215-239.

Lotman, Yuri M. 2006. The text and the structure of its audience. (Translated by Ann Shukman.) In: Cobley, Paul (ed.), Communication Theories: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Vol. 3. London: Routledge, 64-70.

Lotman, Juri 2009. Culture and Explosion. (Translated by Wilma Clark. Ed. by Marina Grishakova.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 
 
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