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This book brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties.

The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak.

The volume is dedicated to the distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel.

Autorentext

Lazar Fleishman is Professor of Russian literature at Stanford University and editor of the series Stanford Slavic Studies. He has written extensively on 20th-century Russian Literature, Russian culture abroad, and Boris Pasternak s life and work. David M. Bethea is the Vilas Research Professor (emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Professor of Russian Studies (retired) at Oxford University. He has written broadly on Russian poetry, Russian literary culture, and Russian thought. Ilya Vinitsky is a professor of Russian literature at Princeton University. He has authored books and articles on Russian Romantic poetry, Realist prose, and the history of emotions.

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The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak. The volume is dedicated to the distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel.

Inhalt

By the Numbers: Notes on Analyzing Russian Verse Rhythm (Barry P. Scherr) Again on Bakhtin and Poetry, with a Very Long Preface on the Perfidious Cult (Caryl Emerson) Casti, Salieri, and Peter the Great: On Salieri's Heroicomic Opera Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari (Mario Corti) « » « » ( ) «» .. : « » ( ) : ( ) What Can We Do with Books from Pushkin's Library? (Alexander Dolinin) Banishing Catherine II: The Bronze Horseman (Olga Peters Hasty) « » ( ) The Rhetoric of Pretendership in Pushkin and Njego (Andrew Wachtel) ( , ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( , ) Aleksandr Pushkin and Dmitrii Grigorovich as Listeners to Peasants (Gabriella Safran) The Making of the 'Russian Orthodox Milton': Fedor Glinka's Quest for Epic Form (Pamela Davidson) « »: ( ) - ( ) : .. (.M. ) ( ) .. ( ) (1919 1920) ( , ) Slaying the Dragon of Symbolism: Nikolai Gumilev's Poem of the Beginning (Emily Wang) : ( ) Anna Akhmatova and the Nobel Prize (Magnus Ljunggren) ( . 18951924) (.. ) Zzyyz zhzha!.. Textual Criticism and Textual Politics in a Poem by Velimir Khlebnikov (Ronald Vroon) -o, . ( ) « »: ( , ) (.. ) .. ( ) From My Recollections (Magnus Ljunggren) .. . .. (.. ) «» / «Glory» ( ) «Silentium» . : - ( ) ( -) Pushkin as Camouflage: Pasternak's Posthumous Dialogue with Tsvetaeva in Doctor Zhivago (Alyssa Dinega Gillespie) . ( ) « , »: « » ( ) .. 19421945 . ( ) : ( ) () (Manfred Schruba)