Thomas G. Winner
Thomas Gustav Winner (3 May 1917, Prague – 20 April 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American slavist and semiotician.[1]
At Brown University, he established the first American semiotics center.
He was a well-known Chekhov specialist, and a proponent of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school.
Notes[]
- ^ Zezima, Katie 2004. Thomas Winner, 86, Scholar Who Escaped From Nazi Europe. New York Times, April 29.
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- 1917 births
- 2004 deaths
- American semioticians
- Slavists
- Writers from Prague
- Brown University faculty
- Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
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