A collection of papers in honor of Bayara Aroutunova.
Contents
Bayara Aroutunova, An Appreciation 7
Leonard H. Babby
Departicipial Adverbs in Russian 9
Diana L. Burgin
Jungian Dactyls on Death and Tolstoy (Verse Burlesque With Notations in Earnest) 27
Patricia R. Chaput
Verbs of `Teaching' in Russian
On Cross-Linguistic Lexical Equivalence 39
Catherine V. Chvany
Translating One Poem from a Cycle
Cvetaeva's `Your Name is a Bird in My Hand' from `Poems to Blok' 49
Julian W. Connolly
The Structure and Imagery of Pushkin's `Imitations of the Koran' 59
Anna Lisa Crone
Petersburg and the Plight of Russian Beauty
The Case of Mandelstam's Tristia 73
Mark J. Elson
A Revised Hierarchy for Stem Classification in Slavic Verbal Systems 96
Lawrence E. Feinberg
Stem Structure, Hierarchy, and Russian Verbal Accent 104
Valentina Gitin
The Preposition of Cause iz its Semantic and Selectional Properties 117
Vladimir Gitin
Toward A Poetics of the Gogolian Anecdote `The Carriage' 132
Edythe C. Haber
Bulgakov and Shklovskii
Notes on a Literary Antagonism 151
Norman W. Ingham
`By the Will of our Lord God and Savior' 159
Charles Isenberg
The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope 168
Sonia Ketchian
The Wonder of Nature and Art
Bella Axmadulina's Secret 183
George N. Kostich
On the Phonetic Structure of Alexander Blok's `Peter' 199
Nicholas Lee
A Contribution to Emigre Literature
The Life and Work of Gertrude Clafton Vakar 208
Natalie K. Moyle
Mermaids (Rusalki) and Russian Beliefs About Women 221
Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
Chekhov on Chekhov
His Epistolary Self-Criticism 239
Linda Nadine Saputelli
Nabokov's Orange Night 246
Linda H. Scatton
Zoscenko's Lenin Stories
The Pitfalls of Hagiography in a Secular Context 246
David A. Sloane
`Stixi k Bloku'
Cvetaeva's Poetic Dialogue with Blok 253
Lynn Visson
The Interpretation of Politics
Some Problems in Russian-English Interpretation 271
Dean S. Worth
Formal and Aesthetic Functions of Diminutives in the Russian Lament 279
Olga Yokoyama
High Frequency Vocabulary in Russian and in American English
A Sociolinguistic Comparison. 291
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