Alexander Pushkin Symposium II Edited by Andrej Kodjak, Krystyna Pomorska, and Kiril Taranovsky
$19.95
ISBN: 0-89357-067-2
131 Pages, 1980 New York University Slavic Papers Volume III, Paperback

The papers are representative of diversified methods of literary analysis and are concerned with a number of literary problems, including rhyme, genre, grammatical structure, as well as semiotic and mythological aspects of literature.

Contents:
Roman Jakobson: O "Stikhakh, sochinennykh noch'iu vo vremia bessonnitsy";
Walter N. Vickery: "Stambul gjaury nynce slavjat";
Lawrence G. Jones: Pervasive Structures in Pushkin's Rhymes;
Dean S. Worth: Grammatical Rhyme Types in Evgenij Onegin; Victor Terras: Pushkin and Romanticism;
Krystyna Pomorska: Zametka o pis'me Tat'iany;
Paul Debreczeny: The Execution of Captain Mironov: A Crossing of the Tragic and Comic Modes;
Thomas Venclova: K nulevomu pra-tekstu: zametki o ballade "Budrys i ego synov'ia";
Lorraine Wynne: Oscillation in The Stone Guest;
Savely Senderovich: On Pushkin's Methodology: The Shade-Myth;
Andrej Kodjak: Pushkin's Utopian Myth.

"The essays range from outstanding interpretations of individual works to discoveries about pervasive structures in Pushkin's body of work. ...this book demonstrates how fruitful innovative approaches to Pushkin may yet be." (RR)