Papers from an international conference on Aleksej Remizov, held at Amherst, Mass in 1985. Contents: Greta N. Slobin: Introduction, Vladimir Markov: Neizvestnyi pisatel' Remizov; Mirra Ginsburg: Translating Remizov; Andrei Siniavskii: Literaturnaia Maska Alekseia Remizova; Ol'ga Raevskaia-Kh'iuz: Volwebnaia skazka v knige A. Remizova Iveren'; Avril Pyman: Petersburg Dreams; Peter Ulf Moller: Some Observations on Remizov's Humor; I. Markade: Remizovskie pis'mena; Viacheslav Zavalishin: Ornamentalizm v literature i iskusstve i ornamental'nye motivy v zhivopisi i grafike Alekseia Remizova; Antonella D'Ameliia: Neizdannaia kniga Merlog: vremia i prostranstvo v izobrazitel'nom i slovesnom tvorchestve A. M. Remizova; Sarah P. Burke: A Bearer of Tradition: Remizov and His Milieu; Henryk Baran: Towards a Typology of Russian Modernism: Ivanov, Remizov, Xlebnikov; Charlotte Rosenthal: Primitivism in Remizov's Early Short Works (1900-1903); Patricia Carden: The Living Vessel of Memory; Alex M. Shane: Rhythm Without Rhyme: The Poetry of Aleksej Remizov; Helene Sinany MacLeod: Strukturnaia kompozitsiia Vzvikhrennoi Rusi; Horst Lampl: Political Satire of Remizov and Zamjatin on the Pages of Prostaja gazeta; Katerina Clark: Aleksej Remizov in Petrograd 1919-1921: Bard of the Peoples' Theater; Peter Alberg Jensen: Typological Remarks on Remizov's Prose.

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