Editors’ preface
Editors’ preface

Summary/Abstract: The semiotic turn in Tartu has its beginning in studies of versification: in 1962 Juri Lotman delivered a special course on structural poetics, on the basis of which, in 1964, he published the monograph Lectures on Structural Poetics. Introduction. Theory of Verse, which would become the first volume of Sign Systems Studies. Verse was a favoured object of study in the 1960s and early 1970s, and also a classic illustration of the term ‘secondary modelling systems’. Verse theory was, at the time, an inseparable part of semiotic studies at Tartu, where scholars of versification such as Piotr Rudnev and Jaak Põldmäe actively participated in seminars on semiotics and published their works in editions covering such subjects. Mikhail Gasparov, a leading Soviet scholar of versification, also took part in conferences and contributed to volumes on semiotics.

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