Contents: James Bailey: The Earliest Examples of Russian Folk Meters; Henryk Baran: On Xlebnikov's Love Lyrics: I. Analysis of "O, âervi zemljanye"; Henrik Birnbaum: The "Supplication of Daniel the Exile" and the Problem of Poetic Form in Old Russian Literature; Steven Broyde: Osip Mandel'shtam's "Tristia"; Thomas Eekman: Some Questions of Inversion in Russian Poetry; M. L. Gasparov: K analizu russkoi netochnoi rifmy; Benjamin Hrushovski: Segmentation and Motivation in the Text Continuum of Literary Prose: The First Episode of War and Peace; A. V. Isachenko: Rifma i slovo; Viach. Vs. Ivanov: K issledovaniiu poetiki Bloka ("Shag komandora"); Lawrence G. Jones: Distinctive Features and Sound Tropes in Russian Verse; Geir Kjetsaa: Tjutchev's Vocabulary: a Quantitative Approach; Ian K. Lilly: The Stanzaic Forms of N. M. Jazykov; V. F. Markov: V zashchitu raznoudarnoi rifmy (informativnyi obzor); Jan M. Meijer: Metaphor and Syntax, in Particular in Mandel'shtam's Poem Grifel'naja oda; Liuttsillia Pshcholovska: Pol'skii iambicheskii stikh (v sopostavlenii s russkim); Daniel Rancour-Laferriere: "Ja vas ljubil" Revisited; D. Segal: Voprosy poetichskoi organizacii semantiki v proze Mandel'shtama; Michael Shapiro: The Evaluative Component in a Theory of Poetic Language; G. S. Smith: The Versification of V. F. khodaseviia 1915-1939; Victor Terras: The Aesthetic Categories of Ascentand Descent in the Poetry of Vjacheslav Ivanov; V. N. Toporov: Mladoi pevets i bystrotechnoe vremia (k istorii odnogo obraza v russkoi poezii pervoi treti XIX veka); Jan Van der Eng: Semantic Dynamics in Narrative Texts; Walter Vickery: Problems in Pushkin's Four-foot Iambs; Dennis Ward: Some Visual Aspects of Poetry and Their Correlates; Thomas G. Winner: The Pragmatics of the Literary Arts: The Language of Literature and the Decoding of Literary Text; Dean S. Worth: On "Rhyme" in the Russian Lament; A. L. Zhovtis: Vladimir Maiakovskii i stikh XX veka (k postanovke voprosa); list of participants.

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