乌斯宾斯基与洛特曼是莫斯科—塔尔图符号学派最为重要的两个代表人物,乌斯宾斯基是莫斯科最杰出的代表,洛特曼是塔尔图最核心的人物。“如果莫斯科的代表是在某种程度上研究文学理论的语言学家,那么,塔尔图的代表则是在某种程度上研究语言学的文学理论家。”[1](138)因此可以说,他们对文学和语言学理论都有独到的研究。本栏目刊出三篇文章,基于乌斯宾斯基和洛特曼的符号学理论,分别对文学艺术作品中的 Uspensbinski and Lotman are the two most important representatives of the Moscow-Tartu semiotics school, and Uspensbinsky is Moscow’s most prominent representative. Lotman is the most important figure in Tartu. “If the representative of Moscow is a linguist who studies literary theory to a certain extent, then Tartu’s representative is a literary theorist who studies linguistics to a certain degree.” [1] (138) Therefore, we can say that they all have unique research on literary and linguistic theories. This section contains three articles, based on the semiotic theory of Uspensky and Lotman, respectively, of literary and artistic works