American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists (Sofia, 1988), Literature
Edited by Jane Gary Harris
433 p., 1988 (ISBN: 0-89357-191-1), cloth: $34.95.

Julia Alissandratos: Leskov Versus Flaubert as Connoisseur of a Medieval Narrative Pattern Closely Associated with Hagiography; James Bailey: The Russian Variant of the Slavic 5 + 5 Lyric Folk Meter; Adele Barker: The Mother's Hold: Case Studies from Russian and Homeric Epic; Robert L. Belknap: The Assembly of Literary Plots; Joseph Bozhichevic: Slavic "Esperanto" for Slavic Solidarity: Visions of Juraj Krizhanic (1618-1683); Evelyn Bristol: The Acmeists and the Parnassian Heritage; Patricia Carden: Tolstoj and the Plutarchan Tradition; George Cheron: K. Bal'mont -- A Champion of Slavic Culture; Edith W. Clowes: Literary Decadence: Sologub, Schopenhauer, and the Anxiety of Individuation; William Edgerton: The Social Influence of Lev Tolstoj in Bulgaria; Samuel Fiszman: Mickiewicz i Puszkin; John Fizer: Mukarovsky's Aesthetic Object in Light of Husserl's Phenomenology of the Intentional Object; Erika Freiberger-Sheikholeslami: Gustav G. Shpet's Theory of Interpretation as a Theory of Understanding; William E. Harkins: Two Folklore Librettos: Stravinsky's Svadebka and Janachek's Zapisnik zmizeleho; Jane Gary Harris: Autobiographical Theory and Contemporary Soviet and American Narrative Genres; Ante Kadic: Ivan Vazov kod Hrvata i Srba; Emily Klenin: Musicality in Russian and Polish Verse: Fet's Trochaic Tetrameter and Related Problems of Syllabotonic Versification; C. Nicholas Lee: The Theme of Death in War and Peace and The Thibaults; R. E. Makmaster: Dvorjanskij brak i burzhuaznyj roman v zhizni L. N. i S. A. Tolstyx (konspekt); Gerald E. Mikkelson: The Narodas a Dramatis Persona in Pushkin's Boris Godunov; Johanna Nichols: Some Parallels in Slavic and Northeast Caucasian Folklore; Leslie O'Bell: Vogï, The Russian Novel and Russian Critical Tradition; Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble: Toward a Reconstruction of the Relations between Folklore and Religion in the Balkans during the Middle Ages (On the Basis of the Ballad "The Immured Wife"); Savelij Senderovich: Opyt teoreticheskogo vvedenija v sravnitel'noe izuchenie agiografii; Philip Shashko: Tradition and Change in the Thought of Lyuben Karavelov; Rimvydas Shilbajoris: Tolstoy's Humanism in His Critique of Shakespeare; Greta N. Slobin: Polish Decadence and Modernist Russian Prose; Peter Steiner: Cops or Robbers: Vaclav Havel's Beggar's Opera; Olga Yokoyama and Brent Vine: Sound Patterns in the Slovo o polku Igoreve: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives on Old Russian Poetics.

"...provides a representative survey of current American scholarship on Slavic literature on a solid international level." (SEEJ)