A collection of papers in honor of Bayara Aroutunova. Contents: Bayara Aroutunova, An Appreciation; Leonard H. Babby: Departicipial Adverbs in Russian; Diana L. Burgin: Jungian Dactyls on Death and Tolstoy (Verse Burlesque With Notations in Earnest); Patricia R. Chaput: Verbs of `Teaching' in Russian: On Cross-Linguistic Lexical Equivalence; Catherine V. Chvany: Translating One Poem from a Cycle: Cvetaeva's `Your Name is a Bird in My Hand' from `Poems to Blok'; Julian W. Connolly: The Structure and Imagery of Pushkin's `Imitations of the Koran'; Anna Lisa Crone: Petersburg and the Plight of Russian Beauty: The Case of Mandelstam's Tristia; Mark J. Elson: A Revised Hierarchy for Stem Classification in Slavic Verbal Systems; Lawrence E. Feinberg: Stem Structure, Hierarchy, and Russian Verbal Accent; Valentina Gitin: The Preposition of Cause iz: its Semantic and Selectional Properties; Vladimir Gitin: Toward A Poetics of the Gogolian Anecdote: `The Carriage'; Edythe C. Haber: Bulgakov and Shklovskii: Notes on a Literary Antagonism; Norman W. Ingham: `By the Will of our Lord God and Savior'; Charles Isenberg: The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope; Sonia Ketchian: The Wonder of Nature and Art: Bella Axmadulina's Secret; George N. Kostich: On the Phonetic Structure of Alexander Blok's `Peter'; Nicholas Lee: A Contribution to Emigre Literature: The Life and Work of Gertrude Clafton Vakar; Natalie K. Moyle: Mermaids (Rusalki) and Russian Beliefs About Women; Katherine Tiernan O'Connor: Chekhov on Chekhov: His Epistolary Self-Criticism; Linda Nadine Saputelli: Nabokov's Orange Night; Linda H. Scatton: Zoshcenko's Lenin Stories: The Pitfalls of Hagiography in a Secular Context; David A. Sloane: `Stixi k Bloku': Cvetaeva's Poetic Dialogue with Blok; Lynn Visson: The Interpretation of Politics: Some Problems in Russian-English Interpretation; Dean S. Worth: Formal and Aesthetic Functions of Diminutives in the Russian Lament; Olga Yokoyama: High Frequency Vocabulary in Russian and in American English: A Sociolinguistic Comparison.

"...the contributions are of uniformly high quality." (RLJ)

"Po shirotata na filologicheskata problematika noviiat tom (NSRLL) belezhi nov etap v''v v''zxodhshchoto razvitie na slavistikata v SAQ." (S''postavitelno ezikoznanie)