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American Contributions to the 10th International Congress of Slavists vol. 2: Literature

Contents Julia Alissandratos Leskov Versus Flaubert as Connoisseur of a Medieval Narrative Pattern Closely Associated with Hagiography 7 James Bailey The Russian Variant of the Slavic 5 + 5 Lyric Folk...

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Mihailovich, Vasa D.

First Supplement to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English

This volume continues and supplements the Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English 1593-1980, published by Slavica in 1984 (see above). It is an exhaustive listing not only of translations of literature, but also of all criticism in...

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Sloane, David A.

Aleksandr Blok & the Dynamics of the Lyric Cycle

One cannot approach Aleksandr Blok's poetry without asking some fundamental questions about the lyric cycle. Why did Blok organize virtually his entire lyric output into cycles? What information (if any) was he able to encode in the cycle that would have...

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Busch, R. L.

Humor in Dostoevsky

After an introduction which addresses the problem of humor in Dostoevsky's works and discusses previous approaches to it -- especially those of M. M. Baxtin and R. Hingley -- this study devotes a separate chapter to each of Dostoevsky's five major...

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Isenberg, Charles

Substantial Proofs of Being

Contents Introduction 9 Chapter One The Evolution of the Lyric Hero 14 Stone 17 Tristia 23 Verses 1921-25 30 From Poetry...

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Slobin, Greta

Aleksej Remizov: Approaches to a Protean Writer

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...

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Barker, Adele Marie

The Mother Syndrome in the Russian Folk Imagination

This study provides a psychological investigation into the mother-son relationship in Russian folk and literary tradition. Beginning with the byliny, it examines the origins of the strong woman figure whose power over her sons results in their regressive...

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Ronelle Alexander

The Structure of Vasko Popa's Poetry

The first section discusses the general nature of the cyclical organization in Popa's work, and demonstrates the unified character of the 1980 edition of his collected works (published as seven separate volumes in Serbo-Croatian, but as a single volume...

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Mozejko, Edward

Vasiliy Pavlovich Aksenov

This collection of articles is devoted to Vasiliy Pavlovich Aksenov, one of the most outstanding writers in contemporary Russian literature. In spite of all changes, turn-abouts and zigzag developments so typical of Soviet cultural life in the past...

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Seyffert, Peter

Soviet Literary Structuralism

The sharp controversy of the 1920's between Russian formalists and Marxist ideologists resulted, for Soviet literary scholarship, in a lasting categorical opposition to all "formal" studies; failing the criterion of ideological commitment, "Formalism"...

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Eekman, Thomas

Russian Poetics

UCLA Slavic Studies no. 4 Proceedings of the International Colloquium At UCLA, September 22-26, 1975 Contents Foreword 9 James Bailey The Earliest Examples of Russian Folk...

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Birnbaum & Eekman

Fiction and Drama

UCLA Slavic Studies no. 1 The papers appearing in this volume were originally presented at an international conference, held at UCLA in the spring of 1978. Covering a wide range of countries, authors, and topics, they focus on the postwar literary...

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