American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists.
Edited by Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake
631 p., 1998 (ISBN: 0-89357-274-8), cloth: $29.95

CONTENTS

Part I: Literature

CAROL J. AVINS
Jewish Ritual and Soviet Context in Two Stories of Isaac Babel

ELLEN CHANCES
Reflections of Contemporary Russian Society, Culture, and Values in Iurii Mamin's Film, Window to Paris

EDITH W. CLOWES
Zakhoder vs. Disney: Two Cartoon Adaptations of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, or American Popular Culture in Post-Soviet Russia and the Question of Cultural Hegemony

JULIAN W. CONNOLLY
A New "Spirit of Negation": Danilov the Violist and the Image of the Devil in World Literature

ANDREW R. DURKIN
Henry James's Response to Pushkin: "Pikovaia dama" and "The Aspern Papers"

LYUMBOMIRA PARPULOVA GRIBBLE
Women Authors of the Orthodox Slavs (Ninth-Seventeenth Centuries)

ГРИГОРIЙ ГРАБОВИЧ
Франко i Мiцкевич: метаморфоэи <<валленродиэму>>

JOANNA KOT
Distance Manipulation: In Search of a New Russian Modernist Drama

THOMAS GAITON MARULLO
Hoping against Hope: Bunin, Rolland, and the Franco-Émigré-Soviet "Dialogue"

ROBIN FEUER MILLER Dostoevskii and the Homeopathic Dose

KATHERINE TIERNAN O'CONNOR
Anton Chekhov and D.H. Lawrence: The Art of Letters and the Discourse of Mortality

MARIA PAVLOVSZKY The Artistic Function of Grammar in Prose Texts: The Modal Praticle было in the Prose of Goncharov and Dostoevskii

ФЕЛИКС РАСКОЛЬНИКОВ
<<Борис Годунов>> в свете исторических воззрений Пушкина

THOMAS SEIFRID
The Structure of the Self: Ptebnia and Russian Philosophy of Language, 1860-1930

MAXIM D. SHRAYER
Nabokov and Bunin: The Comparative Poetics of Rivalry

GRETA N. SLOBIN
Modernism and Women's Prose in Russia and Poland

ALFRED THOMAS
From Courtier to Rebel: Ideological Ambivalence in Smil Flaška's The New Council

ADAM WEINER
Yeats and Blok in Life and Art

Part II: Linguistics and Poetics

HENNING ANDERSEN
The Common Slavic Vowel Shifts

JOHN F. BAILYN
Modern Syntactic Theory and the History of the Slavic Languages

CHRISTINA Y. BETHIN
The Bisyllabic Norm of Late Common Slavic Prosody

HENRYK BIRNBAUM
Na peryferii. Najwcześniejsze zaświadczenie dwóch dialektów późnopraslowiańskich

ALAN CIENKI
Slavic Roots for 'Straight' and 'Bent': Experiential Gestalts, Conceptual Metaphors, and Cultural Models as Factors in Semantic Change

ANDREW R. CORIN
On the Bifurcation of Slavic into Vocalic and Consonantal Languages

LAWRENCE E. FEINBERG
The Automorphism of Slavic Declension in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective

GRACE E. FIELDER
Discourse Function of Past Tenses in Pre-Modern Balkan Slavic Prose

MICHAEL S. FLIER
The Jer Shift and Consequent Mechanisms of Sharping (Palatalization) in East Slavic

GEORGE FOWLER
Voice Relations in Russian and Polish Deverbal Nouns

VICTOR A FRIEDMAN
The Grammatical Expression of Presumption and Related Concepts in Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance

FRANK Y. GLADNEY
On Immperfective Accent in Slavic

ROBERT D. GREENBERG
Towards a New Interpretation of Serbian and Croatian Morphophonemic Patterns

LAURA A. JANDA
Linguistic Innovation from Defunct Morphology: Old Dual Endings in Polish and Russian

EMILY KLENIN
A Syntax for Poetry: Word Order in Fet

GILBERT C. RAPPAPORT
Clitics as Features: A Non-semiotic Approach

ROBERT A. ROTHSTEIN
The Metalinguistic Function as an Organizing Principle of the Yiddish Folklore Text

ALEXANDER M. SCHENKER
On the Inventory and Structure of Polish Subjectless Clauses

ALAN TIMBERLAKE
Linguistic Layering in the Lavrentian Chronicle (The Imprefect Consonantal Augment)

GARY H. TOOPS
The Scope of "Secondary" Imperfectivization in Bulgarian, Russian, and Upper Sorbian

CHARLES E. TOWNSEND
Comparative Analysis of Relational Adjectives in North Slavic

MASAKO UEDA
Hybrid Conditionals in Czech and Russian

C.H. VAN SCHOONEVELD
The Plurality Feature as a Lexical Semantic Feature of Four Russian Spatial Adjectives and as a Subclassifier of Parts of Speech in the Definite Article in Slavic

Part III: Plenary Reports

ХЕННИНГ АНДЕРСЕН Диалектная дифференццция общеславянского яэыка. Парадокс общих тенденццй развития с различными локальными результатами

DEAN S. WORTH Deržavin's Inexact Rhymes: A Preliminary Survey. Part I: Consonants Rhyming with Zero