A/Z : Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky

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. The articles are rooted in computational analysis, literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural history, and a host of other methodological and discursive modes. This collection provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the most fascinating figures of Russian letters but also a remarkable picture of the shape of Russian literary scholarship today. Alexander Zholkovsky: from the life of meaning to the meaning of life = Aleksandr Zholkovskiĭ: Ot zhizni logosa k logosu zhizni / Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov -- "Dear Iosif Vissarionovich": the unmaking of Kalatozov's Mountain Eagles / Anthony Anemone -- Notes towards an evolutionary poetics / David Bethea -- "Protiv invarianta ne popreshʹ" / Mikhail Bezrodny -- Nepodt︠s︡enzurnye redakt︠s︡ii kak podtekst: k literaturnoĭ istorii poslanii︠a︡ Pushkina "K.A. Timashevoĭ" / Alina Bodrova -- Zametki o pesni︠a︡kh Bulata Okudzhavy / Nikolai Bogomolov -- Pobedy realizma / John E. Bowlt -- "I'll permit myself to continue for Pasternak": the reflections on Olga Sedakova's long modernist century / Marijeta Bozovic -- Rezhisser kak zvezda: Sergeĭ Ėĭzenshteĭn v portretakh i avtoportretakh / Oksana Bulgakowa -- Ot Varrona do Panara: Kommentariĭ k "Obedam" Baratynskogo / Andrei Dobritsyn -- Vosled Zholkovskomu. Pi︠a︡t' zametok o rasskaze Nabokova "Vesna v Fial'te" / Alexander Dolinin -- Paradoksal'nye rechevye akty v literature: transformativy i kontraformativy / Mikhail Epstein -- Creating a sincere voice: one poetic device in Pushkin's lyrics of the 1830s / Stuart Goldberg -- Sacred violence in blok's "Dvenadtsat'" / Vladimir Golstein -- Chto takoe semanticheskoe izdanie i pochemu v budushchem vse izdanii︠a︡ stanut semanticheskimi? / Mikhail Gronas, Boris Orekhov -- "Scribo, quia absurdum" u Daniila Kharmsa: tramvaĭnye voprosy / Aage Hansen-Löve -- "I︠A︡ - gorod" iz stekla, ili Prozrachnost' i zver' v romane Zami︠a︡tina "My" / Leonid Heller -- Bomba / Yuri Leving -- Trikster vs. trikster: "Uchiteli︠a" i "ucheniki" u Ėrenburga, Oleshi, Bulgakova i Babeli︠a︡ / Mark Lipovetsky -- "Wordlets": one of Zholkovsky's major contributions to the notion of deep-syntactic structure / Igor Mel'čuk -- "Indii︠a︡ pustʹ": Obosnovanie chuzhoĭ odushevlennosti / Michael Meylac -- Fedor Pavlovich Karamazov - chelovek pushkinskoĭ ėpokhi / Igor Nemirovsky -- Magii︠a︡ starinnogo slova: O li︠u︡bovnoĭ ėlegii Osipa Mandel'shtama "Tristia" / Lada Panova -- Dmitry Golynko and the weaponization of discourse poetry / Kevin M.F. Platt -- Small talk, whimsy, and gravitas: a few quasi-Zholkovskian vignettes of encounters with Lidiia Ginzburg / Sarah Pratt -- "I bezdny mrachnoĭ na krai︠u︡" / Oleg Proskurin -- Seeing the forest through the trees: the underlying structure of Gumilev's "Les" / Barry P. Scherr -- Kniga Iova v "Brat'i︠a︡kh Karamazovykh", ili "nadryvnai︠a︡" teodit︠s︡ei︠a︡ / Wolf Schmid -- Structures of time and the topos of ruin in Kira Muratova's "Among Grey Stones" / Andreas Schönle -- The paradox of Tolstoyan interiority / Thomas Seifrid -- Obnazhenie mastera, zasekrechivai︠u︡shchego priem (Istochniki gruneval'dskogo ėpizoda v romane Vladimira Nabokova "Dar") / Igor P. Smirnov -- Organicity: from the history of a discourse / Galin Tihanov -- Iz gogolevskoĭ antroponimiki / Boris Uspensky -- La Leçon d'Anatomie: kak t︠s︡ar' Petr svoikh poddannykh ot brezglivosti ne otuchil / Ilya Vinitsky -- "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels ... ": some notes on Velimir Khlebnikov's "Liminal" neology / Ronald Vroon -- Four notes on Pushkin's prose / Michael Wachtel -- Can we know the writer from his work? The case of Alexander Zholkovsky / Willem G. Weststeijn -- Aleksei Balabanov's "Cinema about Cinema" / Frederick H. White -- Simvolika peresechenii︠a︡ granit︠s︡ v vostochnoslavi︠a︡nskikh zagovorakh / Aleksey Yudin -- Imperator ili kni︠a︡zʹ? (Kommentatorskai︠a︡ vin'etka) / Andrei Zorin