Multi-topics

Contents

Introduction

Elena Semeka-Pankratov

Editor's Preface:     ix

Henryk Baran

Krystyna Pomorska as Scholar: A Quest for Structure     xi

A Tribute to Krystyna Pomorska

Elzbieta Chodakowska Ettinger

Reflections on the Life of a Friend     3

Elzbieta Ettinger

"The Boiler" by Zofia Nalkowska (trans. from Polish)     5

Stephen Rudy

A Translation of a Poem by Boris Pasternak on Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in Memoriam Krystyna Pomorska Jakobson     15

Kari Egerton

A Letter from a Former Student     19

Samuel Jay Keyser

Mt. Auburn Cemetery     23

Semiotics of Culture

Lubomir Dolezhel

Roman Jakobson as a Student of Communication     27

Katherine T. O'Connor

Chekhov's Death: His Textual Past Recaptured     39

Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

A Semiotic Model of Meaning in the Composite Artistic Text     51

C. H. van Schooneveld

Dumezil's Three Functions and the Semantic Structure of Language     59

Jindrich Toman

A Timely Reminder: Baudouin de Courtenay's Approach to the National Question     73

Thomas G. Winner

The Semiotics of Surrealism in the World of the Czech Avantgarde of the 1920s and 1930s     85

Structural Poetics

Joe Andrew

The Caresses of Black-Eyed Captive Women': Narrative, Desire and Gender in Pushkin's The Prisoner of the Caucasus     103

Edna Andrews

The Boundaries of Sense: Cvetaeva's Extension of the Morpheme     125

Bayara Aroutunova

Obrazy pernatyx v poetike B. Pasternaka     143

Henryk Baran

Majakovskij's Holiday Poem in a Literary-Cultural Context     161

Catherine V. Chvany

The Poetics of Truth in Solzhenicyn's Zaxar-Kalita (Zakhar-the-Pouch)     191

Neil Cornwell

Changing Places: Doctor Zhivago and the Russian Novel     207

Thomas Eekman

Trains and Travel in Chexov's Works     223

Boris Gasparov

 Ob odnom ritmiko-muzykal'nom motive v proze Pasternaka     233

Edythe C. Haber

 Bulgakov's White Guard and Pushkin     266

Morris Halle

An Orally Transmitted Poem of Majakovsky     275

Robert E. Jones

 Gogol and the French Dramatists of the Absurd     277

Kathleen Parthe

 The Poetics of Village Prose     285

Barry P. Scherr

Narrative Strategies in Tolstoy's Childhood     311

Elena Semeka-Pankratov

 Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter: Literature and Folklore     329

Savely Senderovich

Doktor Zhivago i Georgij Pobedonosec     365

Robert Szulkin

 Gogol's The Nose in Light of Sterne's Tristram Shandy     403

Vladimir N. Toporov

Elena Guro: Mif o voploshchenii iunoshi-syna, o ego smerti i voskresenii     415

Boris A. Uspensky

Anatomiia metafory u Mandel'shtama     453

Kei I. Yamanaka

A Cat Has Nine Names: Semiotic Analysis of Poe's The Black Cat     479

Linguistics and Poetics

Tat'jana Ja. Elizarenkova

O poniatii "novoj pesni" v Rigvede     497

Alexander Lubotsky

Accentuation in the Technique of the Vedic Poets     515

Elena V. Paducheva

K strukture teksta: govoriashchii kak sub''ekt rechi i sub''ekt soznaniia     535

Calvert Watkins

A Figure of Poetic Grammar in Indo-European: Synchrony and Diachrony in nuce     553

Olga T. Yokoyama

Narrative Intonation in Zoshchenko     559

Thompson Bradley taught Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College from 1962 to 2001. He has had a tremendous and continuing influence on colleagues, friends, students, and comrades in political organizing and action. This Festschrift honors his passion and dedication with contributions from three disciplines that most concerned him: literature, history, and politics. In each case, they include both scholarship and writing about action.

This publication was to honor the late Professor Jurij Lotman on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

I. Semioticheskie voprosy kul'tury.

A. H. Gurevich:

"Videnie Turkillia": K probleme sootnosheniia uchenoi i fol'klornoi tradicii v srednevekovoi kul'ture

B. F. Egorov:

Ap. Grigor'ev v Peterburge

V. M. Zhivov:

Istoriia russkogo prava kak lingvo-semioticheskaia problema

II. Mif i fol'klor kak modeliruiushchie sistemy.

T. H. Elizarenkova i V. N. Toporov:

Iz vediiskoi antropologii (AV X, 2) opyt istolkovaniia

G. A. Levinton:

Razbor odnogo russkogo svadebnogo prichitaniia

M. B. Pliukhanova:

Narodnye predstavleniia o korable v Rossii XVII veka

B. A. Uspenskij:

Religiozno-mifologicheskii aspekt russkoi ekspressivnoi frazeologii: semantika russkogo mata v istoricheskom osveshchenii

III. Semantika slova i semantika teksta. E. V. Paducheva: Eto znachit "vsegda"?

O. G. Revzina:

Semanticheskoe predstavlenie i semanticheskoe tolkovanie poeticheskogo teksta

IV. Poetika i tipologiia khudozhestvennogo teksta.

M. L. Gasparov:

Stikhotvornyi polindromon: Fet i Minaev

Suren Zolhn i Mikhail Lotman:

Semantika i struktura teksta: zametki o poezii i poetike O. Mandel'shtama

Viach. Vs. Ivanov:

Na iazyke Litseia

Ju. I. Levin:

Konfiguratsionno-dispozitsionyi podkhod k povestvovatel'nomu tekstu: na materiale romana A. Merdok Vremia angelov

Z. G. Minc:

V "Khudozhestvennom pole" Balaganchika

T. M. Nikolaeva:

Slovo o polku Igoreve: osnovnye smyslovye oppozitsii i ikh glubinnye sviazi v tekste

T. V. Tsiv'ian:

K strukture inostrannoi rechi u Dostoevskogo: ispol'zovanie frantsuzskogo iazyka v Podrostke.

"...this book serves to show at least the vitality of the semiotic impulse and the creative energy of its practitioners.... This treasure chest... " (SEER)

"...a tribute worthy of a man of Lotman's stature." (SR)

Content Edna Andrews: A Synchronic Semantic Analysis of the Preverbs o- and ob- in Modern Serbo-Croatian; Sam Beck: Ethnicity, Class, and Public Policy: Tsiganii/Gypsies in Socialist Romania; Masha Belyavski-Frank: On the Status of Three Modal Auxiliaries in Balkan Slavic and Romance; Gary Bevington: On Classifying Albanian Verbs; Henry R. Cooper, Jr.: Andric's Four-and-a-Half Novels Reexamined; Dimitrije Djordjevic: Foreign Influences on Nineteenth-Century Balkan Constitutions; Thomas Eekman: New Trends in Early Twentieth-Century South Slavic Prose; Demetrios J. Farsolas: The Philike Hetairia and Karageorge in 1817: A Premature Alliance; Pietro Ferrua: Romanian Avant-Gardes as Export Products: The Case of Isidore Isou and Letterism; Mary Ellen Fischer: Women in Romania: Public Policy and Political Participation; Martha Forsyth: A New Traditional Song; Zbigniew Golab: South Slavic da + Indicative in Conditional Clauses and its General Linguistic Implications; Joel M. Halpern and Richard A. Wagner: A Microstudy of Social Process: The Historical Demography of a Serbian Village Community (1775-1975); Shirley A. Hauck: Ethnicity and the Kirchweih Ritual: Symbolism for German-Romanians of Banat; Brian D. Joseph: Balkan Expressive and Affective Phonology -- The Case of Greek ts/dz; Ante Kadic: A Literary Profile of Ivan Meshtrovic; Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern: Talk, Touch and Trust in Rural Healing; Christina Kramer: Analytic Modality in Literary Macedonian; Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivic: Geographical Variation in the Perception of Serbocroatian Short Accents; David MacKenzie: Policy of the Serbian Government Toward the Serbian National Movement in the Vojvodina, 1848-1849; Nikola R. Pribic: TALVJ as Interpreter of South Slavic Folklore in America; Marin Pundeff: Bulgaria's Cultural Reorientation After 1878; Robert L. Rankin: Vowel Phonology and Orthography in Several 18th-Century Aromanian Sources; Catherine Rudin: Comparatives and Equatives in Bulgarian and the Balkan Languages; Joan Sheffler: Mask Rituals of Bulgaria: The Pernik Festival, 1980; Dorin Uritescu: Romanian Morphophonemics and Slavic Borrowings; Frank E. Wozniak: The Continuity of Roman Traditions and the Ostrogothic Administration of Dalmatia in the Sixth Century.

CONTENTS

Foreword     9

Letter from James H. Billington     13

Letter from Strobe Talbott     15

A Bibliography of the Publications by Charles A. Moser     77

Charles Moser: Translations of Russian and Bulgarian Poetry     27

ALEXANDER M. SCHENKER

The Trinitarian Symbolism in Vita Methodii     43

EFIM ETKIND

Derzhavin's Secular Dilogy     51

DAVID M. BETHEA

Pushkin's Pretenders: From the Poet in Society to the Poet in History     61

MARK ALTSHULLER

Aleksandr Pushkin's Plan for the "Story of a Strelets' Son" and the Structure of Walter Scott's Novels     75

LYUBOMIRA PARPULOVA-GRIBBLE

Slavic Transpositions of an International Narrative Theme: Sleksandr Pushkin's A Feast During the Plague and Yordan Yovkov's "In Time of Plague"     89

PETER HODGSON

The Paradox of Skaz: Vicious Circles in "Notes of a Madman" and "Notes from Underground"     111

GARY SAUL MORSON

How Much Do Dead Souls Weigh?     129

BRUCE K. WARD

The Absent Finger of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov: Some Implications for Religous Models     149

JOSTEIN BORTNES

Dostoevskian Fools - Holy and Unholy     165

VICTOR TERRAS

How Much Does Dostoevskii Lose in Translation     179

RUDOLF NEUHAUSER

Fedor Dostoevskii and Mesa Selimović: Prolegomena to a Comparative Study     193

THOMAS F. ROGERS

Turgenev and Modernism     207

ANTHONY V. KNOWLES

Tolstoi in English Criticism, 1858-1885     225

KENNETH LANTZ Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and Its Place in His Work     245

BORIS EGOROV

N.P. Giliarov-Platonov and His Work as a Literary Critic     259

PETER ROLLBERG Vladimir Ern: Logisma and the Purge of Kant's Spirit from Russian Philosophy     269

JOACHIM T. BAER

Muratov's Egeriia: An Interpretation     287

MARJORIE L. HOOVER

Meierkhol'd's Production of Aleksandr Ostrovskii's A Profitable Post (1923): The Neglected Predecessor of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde     305

EDWARD MOZEJKO

Poetry as Thing and the Artistic Homogeneity of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde     311

EVELYN BRISTOL

Shklovskii as Memoirist     323

BARRY SCHERR

Synagagues, Synchrony, and the Sea: Babel's Odessa     337

NICHOLAS LUKER

The Right to Dream: Aleksandr Grin's Novel Begushchaia po vonam (1928)     351 JULIAN W CONNOLLY

To See or Be Seen: The Function of the Gaze in Nabokov's Russian Fiction     371 EARLY SAMPSON

Game, Set, Mismatch: On the Role of Tennis and Other Sports in Nabokov's Fiction     391

JOHN GLAD

1922-1945-1988: A Chronology of Three Years of Russian Literature in Exile     403 KATHLEEN F. PARTHÉ

The Utopian Side of Russian Village Prose     415

JOSEPHINE WOLL

Russophobia Redux     427

CARYL EMERSON

Bakhtin and Vygotskii on Who We Are and How We Learn: Speculations on Developmental Psychology in an Age of Dialogue     439

IRENE B. THOMPSON

Language and Literature: A Natural Alliance     463

RICHARD M. ROBIN

Writing Real Russian: Product or Process?     479

ERNEST A. SCATTON

Vowel Reduction and Jat in Bulgarian Dialects     499

JOHNATHAN CHAVES

Translations     507