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CONTENTS
Foreword 9
Letter from James H. Billington 13
Letter from Strobe Talbott 15
A Bibliography of the Publications by Charles A. Moser 77
Charles Moser: Translations of Russian and Bulgarian Poetry 27
ALEXANDER M. SCHENKER
The Trinitarian Symbolism in Vita Methodii 43
EFIM ETKIND
Derzhavin's Secular Dilogy 51
DAVID M. BETHEA
Pushkin's Pretenders: From the Poet in Society to the Poet in History 61
MARK ALTSHULLER
Aleksandr Pushkin's Plan for the "Story of a Strelets' Son" and the Structure of Walter Scott's Novels 75
LYUBOMIRA PARPULOVA-GRIBBLE
Slavic Transpositions of an International Narrative Theme: Sleksandr Pushkin's A Feast During the Plague and Yordan Yovkov's "In Time of Plague" 89
PETER HODGSON
The Paradox of Skaz: Vicious Circles in "Notes of a Madman" and "Notes from Underground" 111
GARY SAUL MORSON
How Much Do Dead Souls Weigh? 129
BRUCE K. WARD
The Absent Finger of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov: Some Implications for Religous Models 149
JOSTEIN BORTNES
Dostoevskian Fools - Holy and Unholy 165
VICTOR TERRAS
How Much Does Dostoevskii Lose in Translation 179
RUDOLF NEUHAUSER
Fedor Dostoevskii and Mesa Selimović: Prolegomena to a Comparative Study 193
THOMAS F. ROGERS
Turgenev and Modernism 207
ANTHONY V. KNOWLES
Tolstoi in English Criticism, 1858-1885 225
KENNETH LANTZ Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and Its Place in His Work 245
BORIS EGOROV
N.P. Giliarov-Platonov and His Work as a Literary Critic 259
PETER ROLLBERG Vladimir Ern: Logisma and the Purge of Kant's Spirit from Russian Philosophy 269
JOACHIM T. BAER
Muratov's Egeriia: An Interpretation 287
MARJORIE L. HOOVER
Meierkhol'd's Production of Aleksandr Ostrovskii's A Profitable Post (1923): The Neglected Predecessor of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde 305
EDWARD MOZEJKO
Poetry as Thing and the Artistic Homogeneity of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde 311
EVELYN BRISTOL
Shklovskii as Memoirist 323
BARRY SCHERR
Synagagues, Synchrony, and the Sea: Babel's Odessa 337
NICHOLAS LUKER
The Right to Dream: Aleksandr Grin's Novel Begushchaia po vonam (1928) 351 JULIAN W CONNOLLY
To See or Be Seen: The Function of the Gaze in Nabokov's Russian Fiction 371 EARLY SAMPSON
Game, Set, Mismatch: On the Role of Tennis and Other Sports in Nabokov's Fiction 391
JOHN GLAD
1922-1945-1988: A Chronology of Three Years of Russian Literature in Exile 403 KATHLEEN F. PARTHÉ
The Utopian Side of Russian Village Prose 415
JOSEPHINE WOLL
Russophobia Redux 427
CARYL EMERSON
Bakhtin and Vygotskii on Who We Are and How We Learn: Speculations on Developmental Psychology in an Age of Dialogue 439
IRENE B. THOMPSON
Language and Literature: A Natural Alliance 463
RICHARD M. ROBIN
Writing Real Russian: Product or Process? 479
ERNEST A. SCATTON
Vowel Reduction and Jat in Bulgarian Dialects 499
JOHNATHAN CHAVES
Translations 507
