Culture and Communication: Signs in Flux. an Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works - Paperback

by Yuri Lotman (Author), Andreas Schle (Editor), Benjamin Paloff (Translator)

Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collection of translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choice of works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life.

Author Biography

Andreas Schle is Professor of Russian at the University of Bristol and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of four monographs and three edited volumes. His most recent monograph is On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite (2018), co-authored with Andrei Zorin.

Benjamin Paloff is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His books include Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe and the poetry collections And His Orchestra and The Politics, and he is the translator, most recently, of Dorota Maslowska's Honey, I Killed the Cats.