Essays in Poetics Journal

[S. Stubbs]

   ESSAYS  IN  POETICS
The Journal of the British Neo-Formalist Circle
        Produced at
        KEELE UNIVERSITY
AUTUMN  1995        VOLUME 20


CONTENTS

                                                                        Page

1.      COMPOSITION AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLE                       1
                Leon Burnett

2.      PUSHKIN'S GORODOK  : A TRANSLATOR'S
                REAPPRAISAL                                             21
                Michael Pursglove

3.      THE ETERNAL HUSBAND : DISCOURSE WITH A NOOSE                     46
                Malcolm Jones

4.      UTOPIA OR ANTI-UTOPIA? : ZAMYATIN'S WE                           60
                Sveta le Fleming

5.      SUBVERSION IN SOVIET LITERATURE                                  79
                Avril Pyman

6.      ON TRANSLATING ZINOVIEV                                         102
                Michael Kirkwood

7.      THE AUDEN-TICITY OF THE RUSSIAN AUDEN                           133
                Masha Karp

8.      RUTHERFORD VERSUS  PATER : CHRISTIANITY,
                POLITICS & HISTORY                                      152
                Charles Swann

9.      THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST :
                A CARNIVALESQUE READING                                 170
                Ronald Knowles

10.     LITERARY TRADITION & PRACTICE IN RUSSIAN
                CULTURE: A Review Article                               182
                David Shepherd

11.     BEYOND METAFICTION: SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
                IN SOVIET LITERATURE: A Review Article                  186
                Graham Roberts

12.     MEDIEVAL POETRY AND THE THEORY
                REVOLUTION: A Review Article                            194
                Gregory Roscow

13.     FROM METRE TO RHYTHMIC FORM:
                A Review Article                                        214
                Roger Pooley

        NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIAN POETRY                              223
        Mariya Muravyova
        Introduced by Tatyana Bek
        and translated by Robert Reid

        NOTES AND QUERIES IN POETICS                                    230
                Igor Pilshchikov



NOTES

Essays in Poetics, the journal of the British Neo-Formalist Circle, is
published as a yearbook in September.  (From 1976-1994 it appeared
twice-yearly.)

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