Contents: Joachim T. Baer: Mixail Kuzmin's Lesok: A Rococo Work in the Twentieth Century 7 Robert L. Belknap: Memory in The Brothers Karamazov 24 G. Koolemans Beynen: The Slavic Animal Language Tales 42 Leon T. Blaszczyk: The Mickiewicz Generation and The Classical Heritage: A Contribution to the Study of Polish Neo-Humanism 48 Evelyn Bristol: Romanticism and Naturalism in the Works of the Russian Futurists 82 Kenneth N. Brostrom: Ethical Relativism and Absolutism in Anna Karenina 96 Paul Debreczeny: The Device of Conspicuous Silence in Tolstoj, Čexov, and Faulkner 125 William B. Edgerton: The Critical Reception Abroad of Tolstoj's What is Art? 146 Thomas Eekman: Walt Whitman's Role in Slavic Poetry (Late 19th - Early 20th Century) 166 Maurice Friedberg: Yiddish Folklore Motifs in Isaak Babel's Konarmija 192 Joan Grossman: Dostoevskij and Stendhal's Theory of Happiness 204 Kenneth E. Harper: Text Progression and Narrative Style 223 Jane Gary Harris: An Inquiry into the Use of Autobiography as a Stylistic Determinant of the Modernist Aspect of Osip Mandelshtam's Literary Prose 237 Michael Henry Heim: "Master and Man": "Three Deaths" Redivivus 260 James M. Holquist: Did Tolstoj Write Novels? 272 Robert Louis Jackson: Tolstoj's Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoevskij's Notes From the Underground 280 Ante Kadic: Kranjchevic's Jesus on the Barricades 292 Andrej Kodzhak: Skazka Pushkina - "Zolotoj petushok" 332 Willis Konick: The Shock of the Present: Levin's Role in Anna Karenina 375 Jerzy R. Krzyzanowski: A Paradise Lost?: The Image of Kresy in Contemporary Polish Literature 391 Nicholas Lee: Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of L. N. Tolstoj 422 Robert E. McMaster: No Peace Without War -- Tolstoj's War and Peace as Cultural Criticism 438 Vladimir Markov: K voprosu o granicax dekadansa v russkoj poezii (i o liricheskoj poeme) 485 John Mersereau, Jr.: Thackeray, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Psychological Realism 499 Barbara Heldt Monter: Tolstoj's Path Towards Feminism 523 Nadine Natov: Structural and Typological Ambivalence of Bulgakov's Novels Interpreted Against the Background of Baxtin's Theory of "Grotesque Realism" and Carnivalization 536 Marina T. Naumann: Tolstoyan Reflections in Hemingway: War and Peace and For Whom the Bell Tolls 550 Felix J. Oinas: The Transformation of Folklore into Literature 570 Tanya Page: A Radishchev Monstrology: The Journey from Petersburg to Moscow and Later Writings in the Light of French Sources 605 Riccardo Picchio: Principles of Comparative Slavic-Romance Literary History 630 Nikola Pribic: The Motif of Death in Vladan Desnica's Prose 644 James P. Scanlan: L. N. Tolstoj as Philosopher of Art Today 657 Walter Schamschula: The Place of the Old Czech Mastichkár-Fragments Within the Central European Easter Plays 678 Ewa Thompson: Russian Holy Fools and Shamanism 691 Ludmilla B. Turkevich: Tolstoj and Galdós: Affinities and Coincidences Reviewed 707 Wiktor Weintraub: Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski and the Beginning of Polish Baroque Literature 735 Genrika i Aleksej Jakushev: Struktura xudozhestvennogo obraza u Andreja Platonova 746 Zoja Jur'eva: Mif ob Orfee v tvorchestve Andreja Belogo, Aleksandra Bloka i Vjacheslava Ivanova. 779