Symposium on 20th c. Russ. Lit

[Ronald Vroon]

Dear Colleagues:

The Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures at UCLA is sponsor-
ing a symposium on February 16 and 17 entitled, "Textual Inter-
sections: on the Significance of Citation in Twentieth-Century
Russian Literature."  It will conclude with a memorial tribute to
Joseph Brodsky, including a reading and discussion of his most recent
verse.  Symposium activities on Friday, February 16 will be held
in the Sequoia Room (1/2) of the Faculty Center at UCLA,
405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095.  Activities on Saturday,
February 17 will be held in Kinsey Hall, Room 184. The symposium
is open to the public. Requests for additional information should
be addressed to Alexander Ospovat or myself at UCLA, Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles,
CA 90095. Dept. tel. (310) 825-2676 Dept. fax: (310) 206-5263.
E-mail: imk0rwv at mvs.oac.ucla.edu or vroon at humnet.ucla.edu.

                                     Ron Vroon
                                     Chair, Slavic Dept. UCLA

TEXTUAL INTERSECTIONS: ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CITATION
IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

FEBRUARY 16: MORNING SESSION: 9:00 - 12:00
Moderator: Alexander Zholkovsky (U. of Southern California)

Omry Ronen (U. of Michigan)
Some Metapoetic Quotations in Acmeism

Roman Timenchik (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem/ UCLA)
Akmeizm kak perekrestok

Ronald Vroon (UCLA)
Velimir Khlebnikov's "Otkaz" and its Pretexts

Michael Wachtel (Princeton U.)
>>From Digression to Nostalgia: The Onegin Stanza
in the Work of Twentieth-Century Poets

FEBRUARY 16: AFTERNOON SESSION: 2:00 - 5:00

Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA)
"Chernoe solntse": Racine, Mandel'shtam, Tsvetaeva

Thomas Seifrid (U. of Southern California)
Tolstoy at the Movies, or, What _Anna Karenina_ is Doing
in Nabokov's _Kamera obskura_

Alexander Zholkovsky (U. of Southern California)
Zoshchenko's Invisible Fears: At the Intersection of
His Comic Stories, _Before Sunrise_ and Life-Text

Irina Gutkin (UCLA)
"Nashi obshchie mesta" ili "opiat' vse znakomo do stona":
tsitatnost' poeticheskogo sotsarta v istoricheskoi retrospektive

FEBRUARY 17: MORNING SESSION: 9:00 - 12:00
Moderator: Alexander Ospovat (UCLA)

Konstantin Polivanov (Institute of World Literature, Moscow)
Problemy kommentirovaniia i interpretatsii rannei
liriki Borisa Pasternaka

Sarah Pratt (U. of Southern California)
>>From the Pre-History of the Oberiu: Zabolotskii as Symbolist
'Wannabe'

Boris Katz (Mussorgsky College of Music, St. Petersburg)
"Roial'" v poezii Brodskogo: k genezisu obraza

JOSEPH BRODSKY: IN MEMORIAM

>>From the poet's last works (the collection, "Peizazh
s navodneniem"): Recitation. Discussion. Recollections
of Brodsky.  Section directed and moderated by Vyach. Vs. Ivanov.