I. The Un/Sayable
1. Renate Lachmann The Semantic Construction of the Void
2. Jurij Lotman The Truth as Lie in Gogol's Poetics
3. Mikhail N. Epshtein The Irony of Style: The Demonic Element in Gogol's Concept of Russia
4. Christopher Putney Gogol's Theology of Privation and the Devil in Ivan Fedorovič Špon'ka
5. Susi Frank Negativity Turns Positive: Mediations Upon...
Papers from an international conference on Aleksej Remizov, held at Amherst, Mass in 1985.
Contents Greta N. Slobin
Introduction 7
Vladimir Markov
Neizvestnyi pisatel' Remizov 13
Mirra Ginsburg
Translating Remizov 19
Andrei Siniavskii
Literaturnaia Maska Alekseia Remizova 25
Ol'ga Raevskaia-Kh'iuz
Volwebnaia skazka v knige A. Remizova Iveren 41
Avril Pyman
Petersburg Dreams 51
Peter Ulf Moller
Some Observations on Remizov's Humor 113
I. Markade
Remizovskie pis'mena 121...
The Russian Gothic Novel surveys the long-overlooked subject of the Gothic novel in Russia. It focuses upon a variety of Russian writers, ranging from Karamzin and Bestuzhev-Marlinsky to Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Tolstoy, who were influenced by British Gothicists like Ann Radcliffe. The excitement and dynamism of the Gothic has long been ignored, as has the infusion of spirit into Russian...
Among the many paradoxes in Tolstoy's thought and action there is the dichotomy between his tremendous authority as an artist and his supposedly inconsequential, wrong-headed views on aesthetics, expressed in the treatise What is Art? The conventional view is that for many complex and obscure reasons Tolstoy in his old age abandoned all his artistic accomplishments and all his understanding...
Isaak Babel' (1894-1940), the author of Red Cavalry, Odessa Tales, and Childhood Stories, is regarded by many as a master of the modern short story and a worthy heir of Chekhov. His laconic prose intrigues the reader and his bold imagery is strikingly innovative. For the first time the unexpurgated, complete versions of Babel''s fiction of the 1920s are analyzed...
Pushkin's unexpected nonrhymes and rhymes consitute an important part of his poetics of the unexpected; however, hitherto they have never been studied in any detail, and, indeed have only rarely been even touched upon. This study analyzes individually all the instances of unexpected nonrhymes of Pushkin's completed rhymed poetry (with the exception of Evgenii Onegin), and all the instances of...
