The twenty chapters of this volume are revised versions of essays published during the last twenty-five years in a variety of journals and collections. They are studies of works belonging to five different genres and written by fourteen Russian and Soviet writers, poets and dramatists ranging from Pushkin to Akhmatov. Most of the chapters are devoted to individual works; the...
Literature
Contents
Preface 5
I. Gogol's Symbolism 7
II. "Ivan Fyodorovich Shpon'ka and His Aunt" and Gogol's First Volume 17
III. "Old-World Landowners" 44
IV. "The Nose" 63
V. "The Overcoat" 88
VI. "The Carriage" 113
Conclusion 125
Select Bibliography. 129
An "Outstanding Academic Book" selection for 1982 by Choice. 74
Up the Devil's Back: An Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry presents 65 selected Czech poets in English translation, together with their biographies. Co-translated and edited by Bronislava Volková (Professor of Czech literature, Comparative literature and Jewish studies at Indiana University) and Clarice Cloutier (Professor of Central European literature and culture at New York University [Prague campus] and Lecturer at...
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:...
Yale Russian and East European Publications
Predislovie
O pansemantichnosti poeticheskogo teksta i sposobakh ego prochteniia
A. Mickevich
"Trzech Budrysow"/A. S. Pushkin: "Budrys i ego synov'ia"
N. A. Nekrasov
"Utrenniaia progulka"
A. A. Fet
"Moego tot bezumstva zhelal"
V. I. Ivanov
"Iazyk"
B. L. Pasternak
"Mchalis' zvezdy"
M. I. Cvetaeva
"Zanaves"
A. A. Akhmatova
"Iz tsikla `Tashkentskie stranitsy'"
I. A. Brodskii...