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"Aleksei Semenenko's book The Texture of Culture is dedicated to Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993), one of the most original and important thinkers and cultural scholars of the twentieth century. Yuri Lotman was a figure capable of combining the history of Russian cultural theory and creating its synthetic meta-language. Lotman's theory of semiotic mechanisms of culture discusses, for example, eternal unpredictability of human mind and cultural activity. In Semenenko's contextual treatment, Lotman's cultural theory proves inspiring and applicable even in understanding today's culture and human life." - Tomi Huttunen, professor of Russian Literature, University of Helsinki
"The first book in English to clearly and accessibly elucidate the complete oeuvre of Yuri Lotman, this penetrating, masterly exposition nimbly draws upon source material from various languages and disciplines - including philosophy, cybernetics, neuroscience, linguistics, and literary theory. It maps out the continuities and the nuances of Lotman's multivalent theories, assessing them both for their own time and for the promise they hold out for future development. An important and fascinating study of culture as an external representation of the mind." - Irena R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa and general editor and compiler, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Texture of Culture
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory
Authors: Aleksei Semenenko
Series Title: Semiotics and Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008541
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Aleksei Semenenko 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00714-8Published: 06 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43529-6Published: 06 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00854-1Published: 06 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 177
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, European Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies