Dialogical Elements of Lotman's Structural Poetics

Abstract

In literary criticism, Jurij Mihajlovič Lotman's structural poetics does not represent only an attempt at defining a scholarly methodology, but also a space of broadly conceived reflection about the boundaries and possibilities offered by the interaction of two dissimilar words. The wealth of creative entropy obligates the intercocutor to choose between the possibility of refusal of transforming the information included in the dialogic interaction. In this respect, Lotman's reflection of the approach to the work appears to bean ethical act.