Semiosphäre, Übertragungschrakter, Dekonstruktion. Vladimír Macura und das Spätwerk Jurij Lotmans
Semiosphere, culture as translation, deconstruction. Vladimír Macura and Jurij Lotman’s late work

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the relationship between the work of Czech literary scholar Vladimír Macura (1945–1999) and that of Yuri M. Lotman, focusing on the concept of the semiosphere formulated by Lotman in the 1980s. Drawing on both Macura’s published works as well as on his archival legacy, it studies the concept’s role for Macura’s idea of a ‘translational character’ [překladovost] of Czech 19th century literature and culture. At the same time, it shows that Macura went beyond applying Lotman’s concept to his own material but also engaged in an extensive reflection on the history of literary theory thereby revealing parallels with the development of Czech structuralism since the 1960s as well as with Western European and North American deconstruction.

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