Julien Greimas

Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992), was a French-Lithuanian literary scientist, known among other things for the Greimas Square (le carré sémiotique).

Works

• Sémantique structurale: recherche de méthode, Paris: Larousse, 1966, 262 pp.
  • Strukturale Semantik: Methodologische Untersuchungen, Vieweg+Teubner, 1971. (German)
  • Semántica estructural: investigación metodológica, trans. Alfredo de la Fuente, Madrid: Gredos, 1971, 398 pp. (Spanish)
  • Semântica estrutural: pesquisa de método, trans. Haquira Osakabe and Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1973. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Strukturel semantik, trans. Gudrun Hartvigson, Copenhagen: Borgen, 1974, 399 pp. (Danish)
  • Strukturaalista semantiikka, trans. Eero Tarasti, Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1980, 296 pp. (Finnish)
  • Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method, trans. Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer, and Alan Velie, University of Nebraska Press, 1983, ARG. (English)

• Dictionnaire de l'ancien français jusqu'au milieu du XIVe siècle, Larousse, 1968.

• Du sens: essais sémiotiques, Paris: Seuil, 1970.
  • Despre sens: eseuri semiotice, trans. & intro. Maria Carpov, Bucharest: Univers, 1975, 338 pp. (Romanian)
  • On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory, trans. Paul J. Perron and Frank H. Collins, forew. Fredric Jameson, intro. Paul J. Perron, University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (English)

• co-editor, Sign, Language, Culture / Signe, langage, culture / Znak, język, kultura / Znak, yazyk, kultura, The Hague: Mouton, 1970, xx+723 pp. (English),(French),(Russian),(Polish)

• Maupassant: la sémiotique du texte, exercices pratiques, Paris: Seuil, 1975.
  • Maupassant: The Semiotics of Text, trans. Paul Perron, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988. (English)

• Sémiotique et sciences sociales, Paris: Seuil, 1976.
  • The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View, trans. Frank Collins and Paul Perron, University of Minnesota Press, 1989; repr. as Narrative Semiotics and Cognitive Discourses, London: Pinter, 1990. (English)

• with Joseph Courtés, Sémiotique: dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage, Hachette, 1979.
  • Dicionário de semiótica, trans. Alceu Dias Lima, et al., São Paulo: Cultrix, 1979, 493 pp; repr., São Paulo: Contexto, 2008, 543 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary, trans. Larry Crist et al., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982, xvi+409 pp. (English)
  • Semiotica: dizionario ragionato della teoria del linguaggio, trans. Paolo Fabbri, Firenze: La casa Usher, 1986, 399 pp. (Italian)
  • Semiotik. Sprogteoretisk ordbog, eds. Per Aage Brandt and Ole Davidsen, Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1988, viii+311 pp. (Danish)

• Du sens, 2, Paris: Seuil, 1983.

• Des dieux et des hommes: études de mythologie lithuanienne, Paris: PUF, 1985.
  • Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology, trans. Milda Newman, Indiana University Press, 1992. (English)
  • Despre zei si despre oameni : studii de mitologie lituaniana, trans. Rodica Paliga, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1997. (Romanian)

• De l'imperfection, ed. P. Fanlac, Périgueux, 1987.
  • Kusur konusunda, trans. Ayşe (Eziler) Kıran, Istanbul: YKY, 1995, 127 pp. (Turkish)
  • Om det ufuldkomne, trans. Otto Pedersen and Per Åge Brandt, Copenhagen: Basilisk, 1999, 77 pp. (Danish)

• with Jacques Fontanille, Sémiotique des passions: des états de choses aux états d'âme, Paris: Seuil, 1991.
  • The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feelings, trans. Paul Perron and Frank Collins, University of Minnesota Press, 1993. (English)
  • Semiotica pasiunilor: de la stările lucrurilor la stările sufletului, trans. Mădălina Lascu and Rodica Paliga, Bucharest: Scripta, 1997, 288 pp. (Romanian)
  • Semiotika strastey. Ot sostoyaniya veshey k sostoyaniyu dushi [Семиотика страстей. От состояния вещей к состоянию души], LKI, 2007. (Russian)

• with Teresa Mary Keane, Dictionnaire du moyen français, Paris: Larousse, 1992.

• La mode en 1830, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000.

Literature

• Thomas F. Broden, "Toward a Biography of Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917–1992)", Lituanus 57:4, Winter 2011. (English)

Links

• Wikipedia