Contents
Introduction
Avril Pyman:
Aleksander Blok: The Tragedy of Two Truths (guest lecture) 7
Robert Abernathy:
The Lonely Vision of Alexander Blok (Blok's Vowel Fugue Revisited) 9
Henryk Baran:
Some Reminiscences in Blok: Vampirism and Its Antecedents 25
John E. Bowlt:
Here and There: The Question of Space in Blok's Poetry 43
Anna Lisa Crone:
Blok's "Venecija" and Molnii iskusstva as Inspiration to Mandel'shtam: Parallels in the Italian Materials 61
Sam Driver:
Axmatova's Poema bez geroia and Blok's Vozmezdie 73
Thomas Eekman:
The Evolution of Blok's Poetical Syntax 89
Efim Etkind:
"Karmen" Aleksandra Bloka: Liricheskaia poema kak antiroman 101
Lawrence E. Feinberg:
Of Two Minds: Linear vs. Non-Linear in Blok 113
Joan Delaney Grossman:
Blok, Brjusov, and the Prekrasnaja Dama 141
Emily Klenin:
"O doblestjax, o podvigax, o slave..." and its status in the cycle Vozmezdie 159
Andrej Kodjak:
Alexandr Blok's Circular Structure 179
Irene Masing-Delic:
Zhivago's "Christmas Star" as Homage to Blok 201
Gerald Pirog:
The Language of Love and the Limits of Language 207
Avril Pyman:
Aleksandr Blok and the Merezhkovskijs 225
Bogdan B. Sagatolv:
Blok's Nochnaja Fialka: The Sef Through Dream 237
Marena Senderovich:
Nezavisimyi atribut, ili contradictio in adjecto, v Knige Vtoroj Bloka 237
Savely Senderovich:
Semioticheskii radikal blokovskoi semantiki 271
David Sloane:
The Cyclical Dynamics of Blok's "Zhizn' moego priiatelia" 287
Edward Stankiewicz:
The Polyphonic Structure of Blok's Dvenadcat' 305
Walter N. Vickery:
Blok's Solov'inyj sad: The Stuff of Tragedy 321
Lucy Vogel:
The Poet's Wife: Ljubov' Dmitrievna Mendeleeva. 345
"The twenty-one excellent papers ... in this collection suggest that the occasion was worthy of the great poet... Our overall knowledge of Blok's life, technique, preoccupations and spiritual torment is greatly advanced by this rewarding collection of essays." (ISS) "Future students of Blok will find the collection an indispensable source for information on specific topics as well as for guidance on fruitful approaches to the poetry." (SEEJ)
