Semiotics and literary taste: the case of Algirdas Julius Greimas
ENSemiotician Algirdas Julius Greimas is known to have analysed a variety of literary texts: poetry and prose, Lithuanian and world literature. His literary criticism was also characterised by a great variety of descriptive texts, reminiscent of their evaluations, which have left a clear mark on Lithuanian literary criticism. A wide variety of literary examples are mentioned in his conversations, letters and other texts. This paper considers the issues of Greimas’s literary taste by defining the outline of his implied anthology of personal works and highlighting its most important moments, patterns, and the principles of its selection. The aim is to consider the relationship between semiotics and literary taste based on these data. Greimas’s essay “On Imperfection”, in which fundamental questions of aesthetic survival were raised, was chosen as the starting point for such reflections. Keywords: Algirdas Julius Greimas; semiotics; Lithuanian literary criticism; literary taste; artistic value. [From the publication]
