Boris Uspensky
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A narrative approach to the Gospel of John including point of view, literary and rhetorical devices, characters and characterization, and masterplot.
Рец. на: Ю. М. Лотман – Б.А. Успенский: Переписка 1964 – 1993. Составление, подготовка текста и комментарии О.Я. Кельберт и М.В. Трунина. Под общей редакцией Б.А. Успенского. Таллинн: Издательство ТЛУ, 2016 (Biblioteca LOTМANIANA). Опубл.... more
The introductory article offers a general frame for the special issue of Sign Systems Studies, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of... more
This article compares the approaches to the semiotics of history of two central figures of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics – Juri Lotman and Boris Uspenskij. It is argued that Lotman’s approach to the semiotics of history is closely... more
The introduction to my reworked PhD dissertation published as a book: "Inherent Myth. Wales in Niall Griffiths's Fiction", KUL University Press (Wydawnictwo KUL) 2012. It is a reading of Niall Griffiths's work based on the theoretical... more
The aim of this article is to retrace the evolution of Enrico Pea’s intellectual appearence between 1914 and 1958, using Lotman and Uspenskij concept of Izgoj, «degraded», meaning a subject both outside and inside the social system of... more
To modern readers, the Gospel of Truth is a composition charged with intrigue and perplexity. This anonymous second-century work seems like a philosophical account of a world different from any known earlier. The complexity and enigmatic... more