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This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky s oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches.

Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov : Alexander Zholkovsky: From the Life of Meaning to the Meaning of Life Anthony Anemone (New York) Dear Iosif Vissarionovich : The Unmaking of Kalatozov s Mountain Eagles David Bethea (Madison) Notes Towards an Evolutionary Poetics Mikhail Bezrodny (Heidelberg) « » Alina Bodrova (Moscow) : « . . » Nikolai Bogomolov (Moscow) John E. Bowlt (Los Angeles) Marijeta Bozovic (New Haven) I ll Permit Myself to Continue for Pasternak : The Reflections on Olga Sedakoväs Long Modernist Century Oksana Bulgakowa (Mainz) : Andrei Dobritsyn (Lausanne) : « » Alexander Dolinin (Madison) . « » Mikhail Epstein (Atlanta) : Stuart Goldberg (Atlanta) Creating a Sincere Voice: One Poetic Device in Pushkin s Lyrics of the 1830s Vladimir Golstein (Providence) Sacred Violence in Blok s Dvenadtsat' Mikhail Gronas (Hanover), Boris Orekhov (Moscow) ? Aage Hansen-Löve (Munich / Vienna) «Scribo, quia absurdum» : Leonid Heller (Lausanne / Paris) « » , « » Yuri Leving (Halifax) Mark Lipovetsky (Boulder) vs. : « » « » , , Igor Mel' uk (Montréal) Wordlets : One of Zholkovsky s Major Contributions to the Notion of Deep-Syntactic Structure Michael Meylac (Strasbourg / Saint Petersburg) « »: Igor Nemirovsky (Boston / Saint Petersburg) Lada Panova (Los Angeles) : «Tristia» Kevin M. F. Platt (Philadelphia) Dmitry Golynko and the Weaponization of Discourse Poetry Sarah Pratt (Los Angeles) Small Talk, Whimsy, and Gravitas: A Few Quasi-Zholkovskian Vignettes of Encounters with Lidiia Ginzburg Oleg Proskurin (Atlanta) « » Barry P. Scherr (Hanover) Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: The Underlying Structure of Gumilev s Les Wolf Schmid (Hamburg) « », « » Andreas Schönle (London) Structures of Time and the Topos of Ruin in Kira Muratoväs Among Grey Stones Thomas Seifrid (Los Angeles) The Paradox of Tolstoyan Interiority Igor P. Smirnov (Konstanz) , ( « ») Galin Tihanov (London) Organicity: From the History of a Discourse Boris Uspensky (Moscow / Naples) Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton) La Leçon d Anatomie: Ronald Vroon (Los Angeles) Though I Speak with the Tongues of Men and of Angels : Some Notes on Velimir Khlebnikov s Liminal Neology Michael Wachtel (Princeton) Four Notes on Pushkin s Prose Willem G. Weststeijn (Amsterdam) Can We Know the Writer from His Work? The Case of Alexander Zholkovsky Frederick H. White (Orem / Salt Lake City) Aleksei Balabanov s Cinema about Cinemä Aleksey Yudin (Ghent / Brussels) Andrei Zorin (Oxford / Moscow) ? ( )