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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
