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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. Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the Great, literary theory, and Russian film.

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) ? ( )