Analysis of the poetic text

by Yuri M. Lotman

English, Russian (translation)

Genres: Nonfiction, Theory

309 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Лотман, Estonian: Juri Lotman) – a prominent Soviet formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of structural semiotics in culturology and is considered as the first Soviet structuralist by writing his book On the Delimitation of Linguistic and Philological Concepts of Structure (1963). The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles and the archive of his letters, now kept in the scientific library of the University of Tartu, and which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian intellectuals, is immense.

Reviews

[Alex Willow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Очень хороший учебник по теории литературы, вернее, поэзии.

[William Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heavy reading, but worth it. Structuralism had been around from a long time (e.g., Saussure and Roman Jacobson, members of the Prague School are called structuralists sometimes, although they're called other things as well. And maybe you can add Plato to the list).

Structuralism became all the rage in the 1970's, and this book was at the head of it. Deconstruction eclipsed Structuralism soon thereafter but, as always happens (I think) in literary criticism, the older approaches remain valid and offer insights that other modalities may not. I like it that Lotman makes overall observations but likewise digs deeply into many texts.

I recommend this book because Structuralism differs so greatly from what preceded it and followed it. Structuralism rests heavily upon semiotics, upon interrelationships within a work, among works. It embraces all the arts and linguistics and philosophy and even law. Lotman was at the very head of the Russian brand of Structuralism. I'm probably incorrect in all that I've written here, but I recommend reading this book anyway.

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[Lauma Lapa · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book to be read if ever to understand how to analyse poetry. Simple as that.